Fadumo
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fadumo is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Somalia it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Fadumo är en bl.a. somalisk variant av det arabiska namnet → Fatima.
- SESweden1 in 11K◐
- FIFinland1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 172K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.7K ●
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 9 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Fadumo är en bl.a. somalisk variant av det arabiska namnet → Fatima.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,930 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 172K | 1.9K | Fadumo | 91 |
| SE Sweden | #611 | 970 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 11K | 1.1K | Fadumo | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 819 | 733 rec. | — | — | Fadumo | 41 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 661 | 891 rec. | — | — | Fadumo | 6 |
| SO Somalia | #3 | 585 | 3K rec. | — | 300K | Fadumo | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 416△ | 174 rec. | 1 in 13K | 980 | Fadumo | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 202△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 29K | 202 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 199△ | 21 rec. | 1 in 28K | 324 | Fadumo | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 186 | 170 rec. | — | 1 | Fadumo | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | 172 | 169 rec. | — | 1 | Fadumo | 18 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 171 | 83 rec. | — | — | Fadumo | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 126 | 209 rec. | — | — | Fadumo | 23 |
Roughly 1.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 172K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili5.1K32%
- English3.8K23%
- Arabic1.3K8%
- Finnish1.2K7%
- Norwegian Bokmål9806%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 5,142 | 32% |
| English | 3,795 | 23% |
| Arabic | 1,322 | 8% |
| Finnish | 1,205 | 7% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 980 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1955 | 4 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 17 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 4 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 16 |
| 1987 | 19 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 45 years between 1952–2004. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fadumo Dayibb. 1972SOSomali politician
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO Somalia | A compilation of common Somali names, showcasing cultural significance and trends in usage. | 2024 | 300K | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,712 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 1K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 980 | #1,671 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 970 | #1,729 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 965 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 919 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 876 | — |
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 · 234 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fadumo?
- We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Fadumo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fadumo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.9 thousand people bear Fadumo in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fadumo.
- How common is Fadumo compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Fadumo is the 3rd most common given name of 430 given names recorded there.
- Is Fadumo a male or female name?
- Fadumo is a female 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 Fadumo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Fadumo är en bl.a. somalisk variant av det arabiska namnet → Fatima.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fadumo” — the 3rd most common given name in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.