Fō
given name · Latin script
Fō is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: To spread out, extensively; to spread out widely, extensively, arrange, set forth, publish.
- TGTogo≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 52K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 97Kfew records
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 Fō itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 named Foe, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fo in DE Germany, MY Malaysia, IT Italy and Foe in CM Cameroon.
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)To spread out, extensively; to spread out widely, extensively, arrange, set forth, publish
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fō is found
(measured from records)Fō 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #356 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Foe | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,072 | 1 in 52K | 4.1K | — | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 141K | listed | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 187K | listed | Fo | 32 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Fo | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Fo | 26 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 1 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 4as Foe | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mo Keb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1982)
- Xie Keb. 2000CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Gao Kenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 230335
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fō mean, and where does it come from?
- To spread out, extensively; to spread out widely, extensively, arrange, set forth, publish Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fō?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Foe in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Indonesia, Germany and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fō?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,072 people named Fō, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- How common is Fō compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Fō is the 356th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C5%8DThe 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, “Fō” — the 356th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.