Fada
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɑːdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 99K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 158K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fada is read(measured from records)
Fada is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili13%
influential, chief
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Portuguese13%
fairy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fada in Arabic.
- Spanish9.4%
obsolete spelling of hada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fada in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fada 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Fada | 32 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Fada | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Fada | 4 |
| GH Ghana | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Fada | 6 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 100 | Fada | 89 |
| AR Argentina | 88 | 1 in 517K | 88 | — | 1 |
| CF Central African Republic | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 1 | — | — |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). 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)
Fada 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 Yoruba, A public display or performance, normally performed for a king in his court or palace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bpz, speak, say, name, mention, tell
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Rob Fadab. 1961USAmerican football player (born 1961)
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 88 | — |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #7 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Fada mean, and where does it come from?
- The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fada?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑːdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Fada in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fada.
- How common is the name Fada?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 88 people named Fada, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fadaThe 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, “Fada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.