Fom

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Acronym of Formula One Management

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 26Mas ฟอร์ม(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 960Kas Former
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Foram

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 Fom 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.

United States (measured from records)

245 named Foram, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 960K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands, as Former

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ฟอร์มThai(measured from records)
FormLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ฟอร์ม in TH Thailand and Foram in IN India.

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)

Acronym of Formula One Management.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fom 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 Fom is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States245as Foram1 in 1.4M568—6
NL Netherlands18as Former1 in 960K177—1
PL Poland5as Foram1 in 7.7M59——
TH Thailand≈3 est.≈1 in 26M#454,167ฟอร์ม16
IN India——1Foram11

245 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

Fom is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Фом, Вом, Vom

36 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)

Fom 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 Akan, a ofom obene no, wapata, he has expiated his transgression a- gainst the king, pr. 26S5. — [inf, mpata, q.vj

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In enm, foam (layer of bubbles associated with the sea)

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

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Foma.

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

  • In Romansh, hunger

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

  • In frp, smoke

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Fom
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#37,740
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fom mean, and where does it come from?
Acronym of Formula One Management. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Fom have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 245 people named Foram, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Fom most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Fom itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 960 thousand people named Former.
How common is the name Fom?
In the United States, the national register counted 245 people named Foram in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million 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, “Fom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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