Fais

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of faire:

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

/fajʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 73K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 45K

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 Fais 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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,600 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
93 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FaisLatin(measured from records)
ฟาอิซThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

inflection of faire:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fais 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 Fais is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈3,600 est.≈1 in 73KlistedFais87
IT Italy≈1,400 est.≈1 in 45K3Fais26
MY Malaysia≈600 est.≈1 in 54K—Fais26
BR Brazil5801 in 365K580—3
US United States405as Faiz1 in 821K1.1KFais93
NO Norway100as Faiz1 in 55K122—1
KW Kuwait≈25 est.≈1 in 118K—Fais6

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Fais is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Belgium

    Also written Faïs, Fãìs, Faîs, Fãïs, Faīs

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, France

    Also written Faïs

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Dominican Republic, Italy

    Also written Fäîs

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Faïs, Fáis

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Файс, Фаис

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Faiş

32 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fais is also recorded in 5 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 circulate, to go the rounds, (tiéngcirculatory system

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In Spanish, second-person plural present indicative of far

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, inflection of fer:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fro, burden; load

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, faux, fallacieux, illicite

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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.

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado Sr. Fais,Dear Mr Fais, (English)
InformalOlá Fais,Hi Fais, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Fais
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—580#14,882
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000101#149,328
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Fais?
A machine transcription gives /fajʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Fais mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of faire: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Fais have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Fais in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fais.
How common is the name Fais?
In Brazil, the national register counted 580 people named Fais, about 1 in 365 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, “Fais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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