Fle
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: abbreviation of Français langue étrangère the learning or teaching of the French language as a foreign language
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/fle/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 962K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 962K (inferred from the name graph)
52 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)abbreviation of Français langue étrangère the learning or teaching of the French language as a foreign language
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Fle is read
(measured from records)Fle is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fle in Spanish.
- French33%
abbreviation of Français langue étrangère the learning or teaching of the French language as a foreign language
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
French as a foreign language; French language for foreign language education
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fle in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Fle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 52 | 1 in 962K | 52 | Fle | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Fle | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | — | Fle | 5 |
52 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Fle is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, to see with one’s own eyes or hear by report
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In frp, alternative form of flœr (“flower”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of fleō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, to sleep
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #43,471 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52 | #43,157 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #166,500 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #24,513 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fle mean, and where does it come from?
- abbreviation of Français langue étrangère the learning or teaching of the French language as a foreign language Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fle?
- In Spanish /fle/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Fle have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 52 people named Fle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fle.
- Where is Fle most common?
- Fle is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 962 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fle?
- In Spain, the national register counted 52 people named Fle, about 1 in 962 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fleThe 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, “Fle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.