Fâkë
surname · Latin script
Fâkë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk and Suffolk;. variant of Middle English Fauke, an alternative form of Fawkes .
- USUnited States1 in 446K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 135Kas Feik
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8Mas Fejk
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fâkë itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 446K (inferred from the name graph)
746 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Фейк in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Fake in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk and Suffolk;. variant of Middle English Fauke, an alternative form of Fawkes . The original diphthong was simplified to /a:/, becoming early Modern English /E:/, usually spelled a or ea, and later perhaps ee.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fâkë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 746 | 1 in 446K | 972 | Fake | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 79as Feik | 1 in 135K | 79 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Фейк | 16 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Фейк | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Fejk | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
746 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fâkë mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk and Suffolk;. variant of Middle English Fauke, an alternative form of Fawkes . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Fâkë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 746 people named Fâkë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fake.
- Where is Fâkë most common?
- Fâkë is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 446 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fâkë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 746 people named Fâkë in 2010, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A2k%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fâkë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.