Fifé
surname · Latin script
Fifé is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy. Recorded meaning: Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which originated in the Middle Ages as a local name for someone from the King- dom (now region) of Fife.
- ITItaly
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fife in IT Italy.
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)
Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which originated in the Middle Ages as a local name for someone from the King- dom (now region) of Fife. In Gaelic legend this is said to get its name from the legendary Pictish hero Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne. Variant: Fyfe. 88 French nursery form of jJoséphine. In the English-speaking world it now has definite connotations of frivolity.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fifé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fifé mean, and where does it come from?
- Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which originated in the Middle Ages as a local name for someone from the King- dom (now region) of Fife. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Fifé have the most bearers?
- Fifé is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled fife.
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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, “Fifé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.