Fagg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Face 2 or a nickname from either of two homonymous ME words fagge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfæɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fagg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 77K
- USUnited States1 in 210K
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 Fagg 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Benin, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Face 2 or a nickname from either of two homonymous ME words fagge. One apparently denotes a fault in the weave of a piece of cloth, the other is the name of a type of fish; both are attested in OED in only single passages. Dims.: Patrs.: Pol.: Fabi(j)anowicz; Pabisiak. Habitation name: Pol.: Fabiszewski. Vars.: Fagge; Vagg.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fagg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Fagg | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Fagg | 1 |
| BJ Benin | #208 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Fagg | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,581 | 1 in 210K | 1.9K | Fagg | 219 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 12 | Fagg | 129 |
| PL Poland | — | 628as Fac | 1 in 61K | 317 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Fagg | 95 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Fagg | 2 |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Fagg 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 English, Fage 2 or a nickname from either of two homonymous ME wordsfagge. One apparently denotes a fault in the weave of a piece of cloth, the other is the name of a type of fish; both are attested in OED in only single passages. Vars.: Fagge; Vagg. Patr.: Vaggs. Cogns.: Sp.: Fabian. Czech: Fabian. Hung.: Fabin.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Sir Robert Fagg, 4th Baronetb. 1704British Member of Parliament (1704-1740)
- William Buller Faggb. 1914NGBritish anthropologist (1914-1992)
- Bernard Faggb. 1915GBBritish archaeologist and museum curator (1915–1987)
- Arthur Faggb. 1915GBCricket player of England. (1915-1977)
- John E. Faggb. 1916UShistorian
- Jimmy Faggb. 1929GBBritish comedian
- Harrison Faggb. 1931USAmerican architect and politician from Montana
- George Gardner Faggb. 1934USUnited States federal judge
- Charlie Faggb. 1999GBBritish racing driver
- Christopher William FaggGBresearcher
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,975 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Fagg mean, and where does it come from?
- Face 2 or a nickname from either of two homonymous ME words fagge. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Fagg?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfæɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fagg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Fagg in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fagg.
- How common is the name Fagg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,581 people named Fagg in 2010, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
- How common is Fagg compared with other names?
- In Benin, Fagg is the 208th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faggThe 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, “Fagg” — the 208th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.