Fath
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fath is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In German, recorded as Occupational surname from Vogt 'bailiff/steward' (also westmd. contracted forms); 13 types/1607 tokens.
- DEGermany≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 238K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 62K
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 Fath 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Faeth in EG Egypt.
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)
victory, conquest, triumph. Al-Fath -ias\: title of the 48th sura of the Qur'an. cially 4) 2s ele 15! "When help and the victory from Allah comes." (surat al-Nasr 110:1)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fath is read(measured from records)
Fath is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fath in English.
- German14%
Occupational surname from Vogt 'bailiff/steward' (also westmd. contracted forms); 13 types/1607 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Aus westmd. Kontraktionsform von mhd. voget 'Vogt, Rechtsbeistand, Beschützer'; Demonstration der F/V-Varianz im Anlaut.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Berufsname zu 'Vogt'; teils auch patronymisch zu Bonifatius oder Servatius.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsurname zu mhd. voget 'Vogt' (Amt/Funktion); Belegzahl 1607.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Zu mnd. vet 'fett, beleibt'; F/V-Varianz. 991 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fath in French.
- Arabic9.4%
victory, conquest, triumph. Al-Fath -ias\: title of the 48th sura of the Qur'an. cially 4) 2s ele 15! "When help and the victory from Allah comes." (surat al-Nasr 110:1)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Indonesian5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fath in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fath 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.
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georges Fathb. 1818FRFrench playwright and illustrator (1818-1900)
- René Maurice Fathb. 1850FRFrench painter (1850–1922)
- Edward Arthur Fathb. 1880DEastronomer
- Josef Fathb. 1911DEAssociation footballer (1911-1985)
- Jacques Fathb. 1912FRFrench fashion designer (1912–1954)
- Helmut Fathb. 1929DEGerman motorcycle racer (1929-1993)
- Patrice Fathb. 1934FRFrench poet (1934–2017)
- Manfred Fathb. 1938DEGerman art historian
- Sébastien Fathb. 1968FRFrench historian
- Farah Fathb. 1984USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Fath come from?
- victory, conquest, triumph. Al-Fath -ias\: title of the 48th sura of the Qur'an. cially 4) 2s ele 15! "When help and the victory from Allah comes." (surat al-Nasr 110:1) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Fath mean?
- In German, Occupational surname from Vogt 'bailiff/steward' (also westmd. contracted forms); 13 types/1607 tokens.
- In which country does Fath have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Fath in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fath.
- How common is the name Fath?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,398 people named Fath in 2010, about 1 in 238 thousand 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/fathThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fath”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.