Fanus
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Fanus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K(measured from records)
- SESweden≈1 in 480K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 740Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 443K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fanus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 896K | — | Fanus | 6 |
| US United States | 176 | 1 in 1.9M | 205 | Fanus | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 735K | — | Fanus | 34 |
| IN India | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 32M | 1 | Fanus | 6 |
| SE Sweden | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 479K | 44 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Fanus | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-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)Fanus is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, bowl-shaped aquarium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, conditional of fanar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, lantern
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)- Cory Fanusb. 1996BBbadminton player
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 176 | #102,197 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 162 | #102,691 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #43,801 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Fanus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people named Fanus in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fanus.
- How common is the name Fanus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Fanus in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fanus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fanusThe 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, “Fanus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.