Fe
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fe is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 37K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.9K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.4K
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 Fe 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
119,725 named Faith, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Faith in US United States, PH Philippines.
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)
Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fe 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 | 119,725as Faith | 1 in 2.8K | 119K | Faith | 178 |
| PH Philippines | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 79K | Faith | 96 |
| ES Spain | 1,358 | 1 in 37K | 1.5K | Fe | 95 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Fe | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 951as Fee | 1 in 18K | 3K | — | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 182as Faith | 1 in 4.1K | 182 | — | — |
119,725 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Fe 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 Spanish, A Poplar Tree
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Akan, few, red. fefe, fefew, fef<ife, &c. (Gr. §70.) adj., adv. l.finc,prdty,nicc,beautiful, amusing; pr. 12 18. 2950. 3555. — after ho, handsome; pr.28. 1.392- syn. guahn, kama, oso. — 2. glad, in the ex- pression eye me fe, it makes me glad, gives me joy: eye me fe(w) se moaba, / am glad that you are come. Cf. few, n., ahogfe
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, the Peking Hankow railroad HF fig the Peking contingent of taxes. Ft PS «= the Peking Mukden railroad. he Peking accent, Pekingese Mandarin. RE lawsuits carried to Peking. Kit & Pekingese mandarin. Jask( ye) Peking fashions, in clothes, ete
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Akan, pL&'j a bleeding wound especially in the head, sf/n. apira- kuru; wobo no fe, Wobobg no afe= wopirano, wopirapira no, ihey wound him; ode ne fe no koe, he went with his wound; ne fe no atii, his wound has become tdcerous
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, to send up a card or scrolls Hx xX to deliver the despatch. KKA z a branch, a twig, a bill, a rule, 4 an item, Num. WEEE a piece and a half. (ESE intelligible, lucid. AEE EL all right, honest, straightforward
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Vicent Fe Castellb. 1875ESSpanish politician and journalist (1875-1945)
- Maria Fe Abundab. 1957PHFilipino politician
- Didier Morenob. 1985COnot in their usual nameColombian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,383 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #1,064 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #2,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 59 | #4,383 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 38 | #9,957 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
| US United States | Baby Names 25,350 (Voight, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Fe mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 120 thousand people named Faith, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fe?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,358 people named Fe, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feThe 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, “Fe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.