Får
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Får is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 69Kas Por(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 581Kas Poer
- UYUruguay1 in 85K
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 Får 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
3,772 named פאר, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled For in US United States, HK Hong Kong, Foer in BR Brazil, ES Spain and Faer in IL Israel.
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)
= bar; »kaša iz bara«, »1° pir, 2° Kolbenhirse, setaria italica (slov.)«
Sources 2
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Får 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 3,772as פאר | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | Faer | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 736as Por | 1 in 288K | 736 | Foer | 2 |
| FR France | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 44 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 573as Poer | 1 in 581K | 597 | For | 189 |
| ES Spain | 427 | 1 in 117K | 427 | Foer | 24 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | For | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | 56as Por | 1 in 38K | 56 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
3,772 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017, counting the spelling פאר. 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Får is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, sheep Ovis aries.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, sheep (animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of få
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, sheep
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Får a male or female name?
- Får is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Får have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named פאר, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Får most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Får is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Får?
- In Spain, the national register counted 427 people named Får, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%A5rThe 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, “Får”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.