Fófó

Name: Fófó: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fófó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 467K(inferred from the name graph)
GHGhana≈1 in 1.1M
NGNigeria≈1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 52 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 467K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Fofo

Locally spelled Fofo in US United States, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 2 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fófó 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.

Where Fófó is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
NG Nigeria	≈180 est.	≈1 in 1.2M	—	Fofo	9
ZA South Africa	≈120 est.	≈1 in 467K	—	Fofo	6
US United States	≈72 est.	≈1 in 4.6M	—	Fofo	52
GH Ghana	≈26 est.	≈1 in 1.1M	—	Fofo	10
CA Canada	≈11 est.	≈1 in 3.5M	—	Fofo	8
CZ Czechia	2	1 in 5.4M	2	—	—

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: MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fófó is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Fofo
Urdu given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India
Languages: Urdu, Hindi
Also written Fofo, Fòfò

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fófó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fófó a male or female name?: Fófó 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 Fófó have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 179 people named Fófó in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fofo.
How common is the name Fófó?: In Czechia, the national register counted 2 people named Fófó, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%B3f%C3%B3

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Fófó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)