Fite
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈfaɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fite is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 70K
- ESSpain1 in 86K
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)
- Record sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,656 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fite 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 | 5,656 | 1 in 59K | 5.7K | Fite | 318 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Fite | 9 |
| AO Angola | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Fite | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Fite | 37 |
| ES Spain | 579 | 1 in 86K | 579 | Fite | 50 |
| CA Canada | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Fite | 17 |
| SG Singapore | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Fite | 2 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Fite | 2 |
5,656 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; 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)Fite is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, years accumulate and months pile up. to accumulate property
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Latin, second-person plural present passive imperative of faciō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, dative singular of fit ( = fish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, how many (general-class objects)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In puw, how many? (more than ten)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Galician, inflection of fitar:
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)- Samuel McClary Fiteb. 1816USAmerican politician (1816–1875)
- William Benjamin Fiteb. 1869USAmerican mathematician
- Rankin Fiteb. 1916USAlabama politician (1916–1980)
- Gilbert Fiteb. 1918USAmerican historian
- Charlene Fiteb. 1950USArkansas educator and state legislator
- Lanny Fiteb. 1950USAmerican politician
- Lea Fiteb. 1955USAmerican politician
- Linda FiteUScomics writer
- Meghan I. FiteUSassistant professor of clinical anesthesia
- Nina Maria FiteUSAmerican diplomat
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,061 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 579 | #7,108 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 579 | #7,101 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Fite?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfaɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fite have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Fite, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fite.
- How common is the name Fite?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,656 people named Fite in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fite?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fiteThe 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, “Fite”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.