Faba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete spelling of haba (also used regionally)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/ˈfa.β̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Faba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 108K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 110K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 142K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
1,931 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)obsolete spelling of haba (also used regionally)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,931 | 1 in 110K | 1.9K | Faba | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Faba | 5 |
| ES Spain | 465 | 1 in 108K | 465 | Faba | 56 |
| AR Argentina | 220 | 1 in 207K | 220 | Faba | 34 |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 770K | — | Faba | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 36 | 1 in 142K | 36 | Faba | 7 |
1,931 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Faba is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Aragonese, bean
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Tauriņziežu dzimtas ģints, kas nodalīta no vīķu ģints
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Guido Fabab. 1190ITItalian writer
- Miguel Ángel Irigoyenb. 1759ESnot in their usual nameSpanish military member
- Antonio Girbés Fabab. 1952ESSpanish artist
- Christine Dacerab. 1997PHnot in their usual namePhilippine flight attendant
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,025 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 465 | #8,501 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 465 | #8,493 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 220 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 36 | #2,599 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Faba mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete spelling of haba (also used regionally) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Faba?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈfa.β̞a/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /fɐbɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Faba have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Faba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faba.
- How common is the name Faba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,931 people named Faba, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Faba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fabaThe 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, “Faba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.