Fujo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Swahili: disturbance, riot, disorder, chaos

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Fujo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Kenya.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania
  • KEKenya
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Bom after parent's departure (Swahili -East

Sources 1

  • A Handbook of African Names

How Fujo is read(measured from records)

Fujo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Swahili47%

    disturbance, riot, disorder, chaos

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Japanese33%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Fujo in Japanese.

  • English9.6%

    A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fujo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Fujo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya——Fujo5
TZ Tanzania——Fujo8
US United States——Fujo5
NG Nigeria—listed——

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.

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)

Fujo 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.

  • Bom after parent's departure (Swahili -East

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

  • Born after parent's departure

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • She brings wholeness

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of fugir

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

Where does the name Fujo come from?
Bom after parent's departure (Swahili -East Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
What does the name Fujo mean?
In Swahili, disturbance, riot, disorder, chaos
In which country does Fujo have the most bearers?
Fujo is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled fujo.

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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, “Fujo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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