Faná

surname · Latin script

Faná is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Ștefana.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 232K
  • ESSpain1 in 333K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈670 people, est.

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Faña in DO Dominican Republic, ES Spain and Fana 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)

Clipping of Ștefana.

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Faná 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 Faná is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#518≈670 est.≈1 in 16K—Faña20
US United States—5941 in 560K718Fana85
ES Spain—1501 in 333K150Faña23
BR Brazil—381 in 5.6M38——
FI Finland—241 in 232K24——
CH Switzerland—121 in 700K12——

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, Swahili, German

    Also written Fana, Faña, Fanā, Fāņä, Fanã

  • Portuguese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Brazil, United States, Angola

    Also written Fana, Faña, Fanã, Fäna, Fána

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 Faná 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

What does the name Faná mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of Ștefana. Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Faná have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 671 people named Faná in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faña.
How common is the name Faná?
In the United States, the national register counted 594 people named Faná in 2010, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
How common is Faná compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Faná is the 518th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Faná” — the 518th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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