Faki
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Faki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: expert, legist.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 17K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 97K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
expert, legist
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faki 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #122 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 2 | Faki | 18 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Faki | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 427K | — | Faki | 5 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 123K | listed | Faki | 9 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Faki | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Faki | 17 |
| IN India | — | 99 | 1 in 13M | 99 | Faki | 17 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Faki 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.
hollow, simple, or abbreviation of
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In ami, grandfather ([Ferrell 1969](Source#cldf:ferrell1969)); uncle (the authoritiy figure in the home for giving instructions; [Fey 1986](Source#cldf:fey1986))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In srn, compartment, cell of a grid, box (e.g. a tick box)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ami, uncle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, pointed, tapered
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Bakari Shamis Fakib. 1939TZTanzanian politician
- Moussa Fakib. 1960TDChadian politician
- Haji Makame FakiTZTanzanian Member of Parliament
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 99 | #28,661 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #9,422 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 2 | #11 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Faki mean, and where does it come from?
- expert, legist Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Faki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Faki in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faki.
- How common is the name Faki?
- In India, the national register counted 99 people named Faki, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Faki compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Faki is the 122nd most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fakiThe same 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), 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, “Faki” — the 122nd most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.