Fatú

surname · Latin script

Fatú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 31st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 481K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 563K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

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.

United States (measured from records)

591 people, 2020

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 481K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fatu in US United States, ES Spain, GW Guinea-Bissau.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fatú 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 Fatú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5911 in 563K502Fatu22
ES Spain—1041 in 481K104Fatu23
SE Sweden—91 in 1.1M9—2
NL Netherlands—71 in 2.5M7—2
IT Italy—≈2 est.≈1 in 35M1—2
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1——
GW Guinea-Bissau#31———Fatu3

591 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Fatú is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Fatu, Fătu, Fàtù

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fatú under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Fatú have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 591 people named Fatú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fatu.
Where is Fatú most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fatú is densest in Spain — about 1 in 481 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fatú?
In the United States, the national register counted 591 people named Fatú in 2020, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
How common is Fatú compared with other names?
In Guinea-Bissau, Fatú is the 31st most common given name of 117 given names recorded there.

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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, “Fatú” — the 31st most common given name in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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