Fëo

surname · Latin script

Fëo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Majfeo; see Matthew. Var.: Fairnie. Fernier see Fearon Var.: Fei. Dim.: Feoli.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 14K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 27K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FëoLatin(measured from records)
ФеоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Feo in VE Venezuela, IT Italy, BR Brazil and 3 more.

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)

Majfeo; see Matthew. Var.: Fairnie. Fernier see Fearon Var.: Fei. Dim.: Feoli. Ferragut Provencal and Catalan: nickname for a good swordsman, or metonymic occupational name for a master cutler, from OProv., Cat. ferro iron (L ferriim) + agiit sharp (L acutiis). Feofilaktov see Eilatov

Sources 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fëo 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 Fëo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 14KlistedFeo108
BR Brazil—1,0981 in 193K1.1KFeo53
ES Spain—1,0851 in 46K1.1KFeo73
CO Colombia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 46K1Feo51
VE Venezuela—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 27K—Feo32
UY Uruguay#5958211 in 4.1K821Feo24

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fëo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fëo mean, and where does it come from?
Majfeo; see Matthew. Var.: Fairnie. Fernier see Fearon Var.: Fei. Dim.: Feoli. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
In which country does Fëo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Fëo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled feo.
Where is Fëo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fëo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fëo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,098 people named Fëo, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
How common is Fëo compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Fëo is the 595th most common surname of 57,630 surnames 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, “Fëo” — the 595th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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