Fayen

surname · Latin script

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

Fayen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 130K(measured from records)
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 376K
  • BEBelgium1 in 586K

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.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈100 people, est.

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fayen 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 Fayen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈100 est.≈1 in 3.3MlistedFayen80
FR France≈100 est.≈1 in 677K10—1
PH Philippines≈45 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Fayen8
NO Norway421 in 130K42—2
BE Belgium201 in 586K20Fayen6
NZ New Zealand≈13 est.≈1 in 376K—Fayen17
JM Jamaica≈2 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Fayen1

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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

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

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

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Fayèn

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Fâyén

24 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 8 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Fayen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 102 people named Fayen in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fayen.
Where is Fayen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fayen is densest in Norway — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fayen?
In Norway, the national register counted 42 people named Fayen, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.

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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, “Fayen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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