Fader
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A device used to raise and lower sound volume
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/feɪdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fader is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 210K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 274K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fader itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
1,581 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faeder in US United States, AT Austria.
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)
A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fader 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,581 | 1 in 210K | 1.6K | Faeder | 79 |
| AR Argentina | 166 | 1 in 274K | 166 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 53 | 1 in 4M | 53 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 52 | 1 in 736K | 29 | Fader | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Fader | 41 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Fader | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Faeder | 5 |
1,581 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling fader. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fader is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Alemannische Variante von „Vater“; 82 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In enm, A father (male direct ancestor of someone or some creature)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, father (often in a religious context)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, alternative form of faither
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, comparative degree of fade
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fernando Faderb. 1882FRFrench artist (1882–1935)
- Richard Faderb. 1900DEPh.D. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen 1926
- Peter FaderUSAmerican academic
- Douglas FaderCanadian recipient of the Cross of Valour
- Andrea A. Cabaña Faderbotanist
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #16,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,876 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 166 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 53 | #100,662 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,267 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #81,905 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Fader mean, and where does it come from?
- A device used to raise and lower sound volume. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fader?
- A machine transcription gives /feɪdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fader have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Fader, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faeder.
- Where is Fader most common?
- Fader is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 210 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fader?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,581 people named Fader in 2010, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fader?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faderThe 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, “Fader”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.