Phane
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Phane is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.4Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.7M
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.6M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, 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)Phane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Phane | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Phane | 50 |
| US United States | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | — | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Phane | 5 |
| BE Belgium | #656 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Phane | 4 |
| IN India | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
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 in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)Phane 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.
In enm, alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Any of several substructures of a more complex molecule.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #56,048 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Phane a male or female name?
- Phane is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Phane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Phane in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phane.
- How common is the name Phane?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,100 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Phane as their first given name, about 1 in 52 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Phane compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Phane is the 656th most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Phane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phaneThe 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, “Phane” — the 656th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.