Faure
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Provençal form of fevre ‘smith’; first attested William Faure 1286 LLB
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faure is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 576K
- ARArgentina1 in 30K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Provençal form of fevre ‘smith’; first attested William Faure 1286 LLB
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faure 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #25 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 4.9K | Faure | 353 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Faure | 37 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,506 | 1 in 30K | 1.5K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 578 | 1 in 576K | 642 | Faure | 186 |
| ES Spain | — | 501 | 1 in 100K | 501 | Faure | 45 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 220 | 1 in 38K | 220 | Faure | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 53 | 1 in 64K | 53 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Faure 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, Elie, French art historian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Gabriel, French composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Occitan, blacksmith
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)
- Jules Dufaureb. 1798FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician and lawyer (1798-1881)
- Jean-Baptiste Faureb. 1830FRFrench baritone and composer
- Félix Faureb. 1841FR7th President of the French Republic (1841–1899)
- Sébastien Faureb. 1858FRFrench anarchist (1858–1942)
- Élie Faureb. 1873FRFrench art historian and essayist (1873-1937)
- Edgar Faureb. 1908FRFrench politician (1908-1988)
- Renée Faureb. 1918FRFrench actress (1918–2005)
- Maurice Faureb. 1922FRFrench politician (1922-2014)
- Danny Faureb. 1962SC4th President of Seychelles
- Olivier Faureb. 1968FRFrench politician (born 1968); First Secretary of the French Socialist Party
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 39 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3.8K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Faure mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Provençal form of fevre ‘smith’; first attested William Faure 1286 LLB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Faure?
- A machine transcription gives /foʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Faure have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Faure in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faure.
- How common is the name Faure?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,506 people named Faure, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Faure compared with other names?
- In France, Faure is the 25th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Faure?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faureThe 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, “Faure” — the 25th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.