Fabian

Fabian descends from the Roman clan name Fabius, traditionally linked to faba, the humble broad bean that the family supposedly cultivated on their hillside estates. The name gained early weight with Pope Fabian, a third-century martyr, and later lent itself to the Fabian Society, the British socialists who borrowed the patient strategy of the Roman general Fabius Maximus. It's pan-European with real ease, German, Polish, Spanish, and Scandinavian, and at rank 442 in the U.S. it carries a continental polish without feeling strained. Three clean syllables, a soft landing, a name equally at ease in a conservatory or a courtroom. Cultured and unhurried.