Fallen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fallen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: past participle of fall.
- USUnited States1 in 309K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 107K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 185K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
1,078 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
past participle of fall
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fallen 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 | — | 1,078 | 1 in 309K | 1.2K | Fallen | 211 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Fallen | 63 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 1 | Fallen | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 185K | 1 | Fallen | 28 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Fallen | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Fallen | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Fallen | 16 |
| VA Vatican City | #104 | — | — | — | Fallen | 2 |
1,078 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Fallen 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, to fall
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of fallar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, past participle of falla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of fallar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, to fall; to drop
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)
- Joseph Fallenb. 1863FRFrench physician and writer (1863-1934)
- Mary E. Endressb. 1949CHnot in their usual nameSwiss botanist and naturalist (1949 - )
- Eric Fallenfilm producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,555 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Fallen mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of fall Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fallen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Fallen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fallen.
- How common is the name Fallen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,078 people named Fallen in 2010, about 1 in 309 thousand residents.
- How common is Fallen compared with other names?
- In Vatican City, Fallen is the 104th most common surname of 1,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fallenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fallen” — the 104th most common surname in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.