FaGa

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of facer:

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/fɑɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

FaGa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 160K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 209K
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 84K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection of facer:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

FaGa 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 FaGa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈2,500 est.≈1 in 84K—FaGa5
BR Brazil1,0141 in 209K1KFaGa68
IT Italy≈450 est.≈1 in 137KlistedFaGa15
US United States3931 in 846K394FaGa44
AR Argentina2851 in 160K285FaGa30
CH Switzerland471 in 179K47—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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)

FaGa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fagà, Faga', Fagã, Fagá

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Fagà

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fagá, Fága

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Fagà, Fagá, Fagã

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Nigeria, Canada

    Also written Fagâ

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Italy, United States

    Also written Fagà, Fāgā

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Fagà

34 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)

FaGa 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 Italian, do lat. fagus, faia

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Faggi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In ch, slightly sloping roof of house, which is poor for water runoff

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Asturian, first-person singular present subjunctive of facer

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of fag

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Faga,
InformalHi Faga,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting FaGa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#9,149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020394#56,084
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010393#52,736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000352#54,766
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—285—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202447#19,565
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name FaGa mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of facer: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce FaGa?
A machine transcription gives /fɑɡə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does FaGa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named FaGa in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled FaGa.
How common is the name FaGa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,014 people named FaGa, about 1 in 209 thousand 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, “FaGa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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