Fayola

given name · Latin script

Meaning: good fortune

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/feɪoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fayola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 9.1K
  • MTMalta≈1 in 11K

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)

178 people, 2020

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Trinidad & Tobago, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

good fortune

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fayola 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 Fayola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1781 in 1.9M176Fayola116
TT Trinidad & Tobago—≈130 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Fayola11
GB United Kingdom—≈50 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Fayola42
BR Brazil—421 in 5M42——
MT Malta#261≈42 est.≈1 in 11K—Fayola1
NL Netherlands—281 in 617K28Fayola2
GY Guyana—181 in 42K18Fayola2
JM Jamaica—≈7 est.≈1 in 415K—Fayola3

178 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

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

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Fayöla, Fayolà

29 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fayola is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Yoruba, Yoruba: 'luck walks with honor'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In German, aus Nigeria stammender weibl. Vom., derinderYoruba-Sprache »Glück geht einher mit Ehre« bedeutet.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Good fortune walks

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Que trae suerte

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Fayola,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Fayola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—20#194,891
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fayola mean, and where does it come from?
good fortune Recorded by The book of African names.
How do you pronounce Fayola?
A machine transcription gives /feɪoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Fayola a male or female name?
Fayola is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Fayola have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 178 people named Fayola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fayola.
How common is the name Fayola?
In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Fayola in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
How common is Fayola compared with other names?
In Malta, Fayola is the 261st most common given name of 1,328 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, “Fayola” — the 261st most common given name in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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