Fá
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fa (musical note) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 78K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 110K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fa in US United States, AO Angola, TN Tunisia and 1 more and Fã in DZ Algeria.
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)fa (musical note)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fá 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.
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)Fá 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 Irish, Ulster form of faoi (“about, concerning”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 乏
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to receive, to get
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lhu, to hide something
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)- Fernando López de Castro Fab. 1940ESSpanish military personnel and politician
- Luis Felipe Solé Fab. 1946ESSpanish priest
- Nándor Fab. 1953HUHungarian sailor, naval architect
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fá mean, and where does it come from?
- fa (musical note) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Fá a male or female name?
- Fá 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Fá?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Fá in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fã. After it come India, Tunisia, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 775 people named Fá in 2020, about 1 in 429 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fá?
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/f%C3%A1The 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, “Fá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.