Favor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/feɪvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Favor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 280K(measured from records)
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)
1,186 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Favor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,186 | 1 in 280K | 1.2K | Favor | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Favor | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | — | 25 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 13 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | 1 | — | — |
1,186 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Favor 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.
In Portuguese, favor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, good will, inclination, partiality, favor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, alternative form of favoare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrn, our father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, faveur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Donald Favorb. 1913USAmerican hammer thrower
- Mike Favorb. 1966USAmerican football player
- Stephannie Favorb. 1970USAmerican reality television participant
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,273 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #88,321 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Favor mean, and where does it come from?
- A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Favor?
- A machine transcription gives /feɪvə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Favor?
- In the etymology graph, Favorito is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Favor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Favor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled favor.
- Where is Favor most common?
- Favor is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 280 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Favor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,186 people named Favor in 2010, about 1 in 280 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/favorThe 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, “Favor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.