Faña
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/faɲa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Ștefana.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 232K
- ESSpain1 in 333K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈670 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fana in US United States.
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)Clipping of Ștefana.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The African book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #518 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Faña | 20 |
| US United States | — | 594 | 1 in 560K | 718 | Fana | 85 |
| ES Spain | — | 150 | 1 in 333K | 150 | Faña | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 38 | 1 in 5.6M | 38 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 150 | #20,532 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 150 | #20,484 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Faña mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Ștefana. Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Faña?
- A machine transcription gives /faɲa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Faña have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 671 people named Faña in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faña.
- How common is the name Faña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 594 people named Faña in 2010, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
- How common is Faña compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Faña is the 518th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Faña?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fa%C3%B1aThe 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, “Faña” — the 518th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.