Fenelon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Francois, French prelate, writer (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɨnɛlɔn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Fenelon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 130K
- CLChile≈1 in 170K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Fenelon
- Portuguese:/fɨnɛlɔn/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/fenelon/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Francois, French prelate, writer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fenelon is found
(measured from records)Fenelon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #230 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Fenelon | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,111 | 1 in 299K | 1.4K | Fenelon | 184 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 401 | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 81 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Fenelon | 66 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Fenelon | 34 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Fenelon | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Fenelon | 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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- François Fénelonb. 1651FRFrench archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
- Ken Fenelonb. 1909USAmerican professional wrestler
- Fania Fénelonb. 1919FRFrench singer, composer and pianist (1919–1983)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fenelon mean, and where does it come from?
- Francois, French prelate, writer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Fenelon?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /fɨnɛlɔn/; in Spanish /fenelon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fenelon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Fenelon in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fenelon. After it come United States, Brazil, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fenelon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,111 people named Fenelon in 2010, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.
- How common is Fenelon compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Fenelon is the 230th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fenelonThe 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, “Fenelon” — the 230th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.