Faivre
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɛvʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faivre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Faivre.
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 21K
- CACanada≈1 in 497K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Faivre.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faivre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #362 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 1.3K | Faivre | 279 |
| US United States | — | 530 | 1 in 628K | 566 | Faivre | 99 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 400 | 1 in 21K | 400 | Faivre | 41 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 663K | — | Faivre | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 802K | — | Faivre | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 497K | — | Faivre | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Faivre | 8 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Léon Maxime Faivreb. 1856FRFrench painter (1856–1941)
- Abel Faivreb. 1867FRFrench artist (1867–1945)
- Paul Faivreb. 1886FRFrench actor (1886–1973)
- Antoine Faivreb. 1934FRFrench historian (1934–2021)
- Didier Faivre-Pierretb. 1965FROlympic cyclist
- Aurélien Faivreb. 1978FRfootballer
- Florence Faivreb. 1983FRFrench-Thai actress
- Guillaume Faivreb. 1987CHSwiss footballer
- Mathieu Faivreb. 1992FRFrench alpine skier
- Romain Faivreb. 1998FRFrench footballer (born 1998)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 697 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 566 | #41,459 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Faivre mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Faivre. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Faivre?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛvʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Faivre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Faivre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faivre.
- How common is the name Faivre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 530 people named Faivre in 2010, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
- How common is Faivre compared with other names?
- In France, Faivre is the 362nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faivreThe 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, “Faivre” — the 362nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.