Fates
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr afaitié ‘affected, skilful, prudent’; first attested William Affaitied c1162 BM
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fates is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 265K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 825K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 265K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr afaitié ‘affected, skilful, prudent’; first attested William Affaitied c1162 BM
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fates 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.
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Fates is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis; supernatural beings who controlled the destiny of men and of the gods.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lld, feminine plural of fat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, dative plural of fat
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)
- Hervé Fatesb. 1946FRFrench politician
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Fates mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr afaitié ‘affected, skilful, prudent’; first attested William Affaitied c1162 BM Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Fates have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 162 people named Fates in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fates?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people in Algeria have Fates as their first surname, about 1 in 265 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Fates?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fatesThe 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, “Fates”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.