Fadhili
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fadhili is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: benignant.
- TZTanzania1 in 891◐
- KEKenya1 in 16K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 38 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 2 countries
7.0K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
benignant
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #40 | 14,863 | 6.2K rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 38 |
| KE Kenya | #941 | 1,847 | 586 rec. | — | 1 | Fadhili | 25 |
| US United States | — | 77 | 86 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 24 | 13 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16 | 8 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | 10 | 12 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 4 |
| FR France | — | 7 | 70 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 38 |
| CN China | — | 5 | 0 rec. | — | — | Fadhili | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | — | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 rec. | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 5 rec. | — | 2 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili13K71%
- Indonesian1.9K11%
- English1.4K8%
- Arabic3352%
- Hindi2011%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 12,640 | 71% |
| Indonesian | 1,930 | 11% |
| English | 1,450 | 8% |
| Arabic | 335 | 2% |
| Hindi | 201 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fadhili 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.
Kindness, goodwill.
as a nameThe African book of names
virtuous
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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●
- Fadhili Williamb. 1938KEKenyan recording artist, songwriter
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●
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #148,015 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #41,797 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 1 | #406 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| KE Kenya | What's in a Name (Zawawi, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fadhili?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Fadhili (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fadhili have the most bearers?
- Fadhili is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled fadhili.
- How common is Fadhili compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Fadhili is the 40th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
- Is Fadhili a male or female name?
- Fadhili 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.
- What does the name Fadhili mean?
- Recorded meaning: benignant
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Fadhili” — the 40th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.