Favour

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Fever in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Favour is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.8K records spelled Favour3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Spain, United States, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Fávōür

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Favour is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, and v., ngahti gole, ngau; favour with goods liba; ngau léwé

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

• In fro, Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, goodwill, benevolent regard

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 2001–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Chidinma Favour Edejib. 1995NGNigerian footballer
• Favour Ugochi Anosikeb. 1997NGmusician
• Moraiyewa Favour Olugbengab. 1998NGNigerian media personality
• Favour Agborob. 1999NGNigerian weightlifter
• Favour Onwukaactress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Favour?

We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Favour (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Favour have the most bearers?

Favour is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled favour.

How common is Favour compared with other names?

In Nigeria, Favour is the 84th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.

Is Favour a male or female name?

Favour 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 Favour mean?

Recorded meaning: British standard spelling of favor.