Fanti
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɐ̃ti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fanti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 59K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 61K
- BRBrazil1 in 103K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
2,047 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Fanti is read(measured from records)
Fanti is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fanti in Portuguese.
- English21%
A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fanti in Spanish.
- Italian13%
forma plural de Fante.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Fanti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fanti in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fanti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,047 | 1 in 103K | 2K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 376 | 1 in 121K | 376 | — | — |
| US United States | 312 | 1 in 1.1M | 312 | Fanti | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 137 | 1 in 61K | 137 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | — |
2,047 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fanti is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of fāns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, tauta, dzīvo Ganas rietumos, ietilpst akanu tautu grupā, valoda pieder pie mandu saimes Gvinejas grupas kva apakšgrupas, vietējie tradicionālie ticējumi (dabas spēku un senču kults), daļa - kristīgie
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Bartolomeo Fantib. 1423ITItalian monk
- Gaetano Fantib. 1687ITAustrian painter (1687-1759)
- Manfredo Fantib. 1806ITItalian general (1806-1865)
- Silvio Fantib. 1919CHSwiss psychiatrist (1919-1997)
- Franco Fantib. 1924ITcyclist (1924-2007)
- Guido Fantib. 1925ITItalian politician (1925-2012)
- Fausto Fantib. 1978BRcomedian (1978-2014)
- Iramab. 1995ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer-songwriter (born 1995)
- Francesca Fantib. 2000ITItalian film actor and stage actor
- Gabriele Fantib. 2000ITItalian footballer
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,773 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 376 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 312 | #63,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 293 | #71,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 281 | #65,862 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 137 | #8,568 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 57 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,382 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Fanti mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fanti?
- A machine transcription gives /fɐ̃ti/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Fanti?
- In the etymology graph, Fantee is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fanti have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Fanti, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Fanti most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fanti is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fanti?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,047 people named Fanti, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fanti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fantiThe 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, “Fanti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.