Faës
surname · Latin script
Faës is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 2,129 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 37K
- ARArgentina1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,129 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faes in BE Belgium, NL Netherlands, US United States and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Faës is found
(measured from records)Faës 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 2,129 | 1 in 5.5K | 2.1K | Faes | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 579 | 1 in 366K | 579 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 477 | 1 in 95K | 477 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 467 | 1 in 37K | 467 | Faes | 7 |
| US United States | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 258 | Faes | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 87 | 1 in 97K | 87 | Faes | 7 |
2,129 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Faës?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Faës, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faes. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Faës most common?
- Faës is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Faës?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,129 people named Faës in 2008, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Faës?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fa%C3%ABsThe 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, “Faës” — ranked 471st in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.