Faig
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/fɑɪɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faig is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 16Kas Фаиг(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 97Kas Фаиг
- UAUkraine≈1 in 510Kas Фаіг
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 Faig 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 497K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Фаиг, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Фаиг in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan and Фаіг in UA Ukraine.
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.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faig 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 97K | register #1,347 | Фаиг | 111 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 178 | Фаиг | 31 |
| MK North Macedonia | 595as Фаик | 1 in 3.6K | 595 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Фаіг | 11 |
| PL Poland | 77 | 1 in 497K | 77 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 59as Faiq | 1 in 173K | 59 | — | — |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; State Statistical Office — living population names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Faig 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 Catalan, beech (tree)
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)- Juan Carlos Faigb. 1895UYUruguayan writer
- Mario Faigb. 1905ARArgentine actor
- Miquel Faig i Solanesb. 1912ESCatalan musician
- Joan Padernb. 1924ESnot in their usual nameCatalan painter
- Jesús Ribera i Faigb. 1925ESSpanish musician
- Kenneth W. Faig Jr.b. 1948USAmerican writer
- Dieter Faigb. 1956DEGerman badminton player
- Juan Francisco Faigb. 1974UYUruguayan writer
- Miquel FaigESCatalan economist based in Canada
- Anna Bach FaigESresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-8861-8013
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #327,545 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Faig?
- A machine transcription gives /fɑɪɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Faig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Фаиг in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Faig most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Faig is densest in Poland — about 1 in 497 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Faig?
- In Poland, the national register counted 77 people named Faig in 2026, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Faig?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faigThe 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, “Faig”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.