Faco

surname · Latin script

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

Faco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 151K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 663K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.7M

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)

1,402 people

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Faco 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 Faco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,4021 in 151K1.4KFaco53
PH Philippines≈170 est.≈1 in 663K—Faco7
US United States≈11 est.≈1 in 30M—Faco10
ES Spain≈7 est.≈1 in 7.5M—Faco6
PT Portugal≈4 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Faco2

1,402 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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Faco is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Faço, Facó

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Nigeria, South Africa

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Facó, Faço

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines

    Also written Facó, Faço

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia

    Also written Facó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Facó

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Facó

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Faco is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, hack (horse)

    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 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Faco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,765

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Faco have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Faco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faco.
Where is Faco most common?
Faco is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 151 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Faco?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,402 people named Faco, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.

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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, “Faco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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