Fathi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: $ Probably from fatih ‘releaser’ or ‘conqueror’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries
Fathi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 66th most common surname.
- LYLibya≈1 in 1.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.1K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 2.1K
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 Fathi 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Libya, 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)$ Probably from fatih ‘releaser’ or ‘conqueror’. Feminine form: Fathiyya.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fathi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #185 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Fathi | 120 |
| MA Morocco | #66 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Fathi | 70 |
| DZ Algeria | #260 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | listed | Fathi | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Fathi | 78 |
| TN Tunisia | #238 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Fathi | 59 |
| LY Libya | #193 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Fathi | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 749 | 1 in 67K | 749 | Fathi | 35 |
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 dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Fathi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
principal place: Sâo Paulo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Arabic, one who wins victory after victory
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)- Hassan Fathyb. 1900EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian architect (1900–1989)
- Mehdi Fat'hib. 1939IRnot in their usual nameIranian actor
- Naglaa Fathib. 1951EGEgyptian actress (born 1951)
- Albert Fathib. 1951FRFrench mathematician
- Adam Fathib. 1957TNTunisian poet and translator
- Hassan Fathib. 1959IRIranian film director
- Mohammad Javad Fathib. 1965IRpolitician
- Noam Fathib. 1974ILIsraeli television host and satirican
- Malik Fathib. 1983TRTurkish-German association football player (born 1983)
- Balqeesb. 1984AEnot in their usual nameYemeni actress and singer
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)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 749 | #5,712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 749 | #5,706 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Fathi come from?
- $ Probably from fatih ‘releaser’ or ‘conqueror’. Feminine form: Fathiyya. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Fathi mean?
- Recorded meaning: $ Probably from fatih ‘releaser’ or ‘conqueror’.
- In which country does Fathi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Fathi in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fathi.
- How common is the name Fathi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 749 people named Fathi, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Fathi compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Fathi is the 185th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fathiThe 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, “Fathi” — the 185th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.