Fawcett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Fawsyde (East Lothian), Fawcett (Westmorland) or Facit; first attested Alan de Fausyde 1238 Black
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfɔsɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fawcett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- CACanada≈1 in 19K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Fawsyde (East Lothian), Fawcett (Westmorland) or Facit; first attested Alan de Fausyde 1238 Black
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fawcett 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Fawcett | 9 |
| US United States | — | 6,381 | 1 in 52K | 6.4K | Fawcett | 376 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Fawcett | 210 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Fawcett | 157 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Fawcett | 140 |
| CU Cuba | #985 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Fawcett | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Fawcett | 60 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)
Fawcett 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 English, Dim. (of 1): Ger.: Federle. or Facit in Lancs., both so called from OE fag, fah (brightly) coloured, variegated, flowery + side slope. Forcett in N Yorks, is named from OE ford Ford + (ge)sete house, settlement, and this may also be a partial source of the surname, which is common esp. in N England.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Fearnall see Farnell Cumb. or Facit in Lancs., both so called from OE fag, fdh (brightly) coloured, variegated, flowery + side slope.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old English from places in England derived from Old English words for “colourful slope”.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Farrah Leni, US actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, faucet
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)
- Henry Fawcettb. 1833GBBritish academic, politician and economist (1833–1884)
- Millicent Fawcettb. 1847GBEnglish politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)
- George Fawcettb. 1860USAmerican actor (1860–1939)
- Percy Fawcettb. 1867GBBritish explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (1867–1925)
- Philippa Fawcettb. 1868GBEnglish mathematician (1868–1948)
- William Fawcettb. 1894USAmerican actor (1894-1974)
- Charles Fernley Fawcettb. 1915USAmerican actor and filmmaker (1915-2008)
- Farrah Fawcettb. 1947USAmerican actress (1947–2009)
- John Fawcettb. 1968CACanadian film and television director
- Joy Fawcettb. 1968USAmerican soccer 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)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.4K | #5,454 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,218 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Fawcett mean, and where does it come from?
- from Fawsyde (East Lothian), Fawcett (Westmorland) or Facit; first attested Alan de Fausyde 1238 Black Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Fawcett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɔsɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fawcett have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Fawcett in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fawcett.
- How common is the name Fawcett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,381 people named Fawcett in 2010, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- How common is Fawcett compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Fawcett is the 985th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fawcett?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fawcettThe 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, “Fawcett” — the 985th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.