Faïna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faïna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Vulgar Latin *fagīna (mustela), from the feminine of Latin fagīnus. Compare French fouine.
- USUnited States1 in 222K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 4.9K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11K
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 Faïna 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,496 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faina in US United States, DE Germany, RU Russia and 3 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(measured from records)
From Vulgar Latin *fagīna (mustela), from the feminine of Latin fagīnus. Compare French fouine.
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faïna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,496 | 1 in 222K | 1.5K | Faina | 197 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Faina | 23 |
| IL Israel | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Faina | 24 |
| LV Latvia | 381 | 1 in 4.9K | 381 | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Faina | 49 |
| MD Moldova | 241 | 1 in 14K | 241 | — | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 3 | Faina | 8 |
| GE Georgia | 80as ფაინა | 1 in 50K | 80 | Faina | 6 |
1,496 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; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); e-services.md — living population register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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
- What does the name Faïna mean, and where does it come from?
- From Vulgar Latin *fagīna (mustela), from the feminine of Latin fagīnus. Compare French fouine. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 2 other sources.
- Is Faïna a male or female name?
- Faïna 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 Faïna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Faïna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faina.
- Where is Faïna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Faïna is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Faïna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,496 people named Faïna in 2020, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fa%C3%AFnaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Faïna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.