Favour
given name · Latin script
Meaning: British standard spelling of favor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/feɪvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Favour is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 740(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 295K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 8.9K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 740 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
British standard spelling of favor.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Favour 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #91 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 740 | listed | Favour | 124 |
| CM Cameroon | #583 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Favour | 6 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Favour | 21 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Favour | 10 |
| GH Ghana | #425 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Favour | 21 |
| US United States | — | 1,129 | 1 in 295K | 4.3K | Favour | 154 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Favour | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Favour is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, and v., ngahti gole, ngau; favour with goods liba; ngau léwé
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In fro, Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, goodwill, benevolent regard
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chidinma Favour Edejib. 1995NGNigerian footballer
- Favour Ugochi Anosikeb. 1997NGmusician
- Moraiyewa Favour Olugbengab. 1998NGNigerian media personality
- Favour Agborob. 1999NGNigerian weightlifter
- Favour Onwukaactress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 891 | #11,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 238 | #11,380 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 7 | — |
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
- What does the name Favour mean, and where does it come from?
- British standard spelling of favor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Favour?
- A machine transcription gives /feɪvə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Favour a male or female name?
- Favour is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Favour have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 289 thousand people named Favour in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled favour.
- How common is the name Favour?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,129 people named Favour in 2020, about 1 in 295 thousand residents.
- How common is Favour compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Favour is the 91st most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Favour?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/favourThe 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, “Favour” — the 91st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.