Fané
surname · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of faner
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fané is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 57th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 194K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 337K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BS Bahamas and 1 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(measured from records)
past participle of faner
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fané 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1.1K | — | — |
| HT Haiti | #60 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Fane | 1 |
| US United States | — | 987 | 1 in 337K | 1K | Fane | 201 |
| FR France | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 48 | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Fane | 95 |
| NO Norway | — | 114 | 1 in 48K | 114 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 16 | — | — |
| BS Bahamas | #57 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Fane | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fané mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of faner Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fané have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Fané in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fané?
- In the United States, the national register counted 987 people named Fané in 2010, about 1 in 337 thousand residents.
- How common is Fané compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Fané is the 57th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fan%C3%A9The 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, “Fané” — the 57th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.