Fifita
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fifita is a surname, most frequently recorded in Australia. In Tonga it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A surname from Tongan.
- USUnited States1 in 474K◐
- TOTonga1 in 362
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈702 ●
- Sources
- 93 ●
- 1 in 474K ◐
across 1 country
4.2K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
A surname from Tongan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | 933 | 901 rec. | — | 1 | Fifita | 59 |
| US United States | — | 702 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 474K | 722 | Fifita | 93 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 166 | 115 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | 57 | 57 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 33 | 34 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 2 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #511 | 22 | 84 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16 | 21 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 7 |
| TO Tonga | #4 | 12 | 4 rec. | — | 2.3K | Fifita | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | 11 | 13 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 2 |
| MT Malta | — | 8 | 24 rec. | — | — | Fifita | 1 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| CK Cook Islands | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3.9K66%
- Indonesian4628%
- Amharic3967%
- Spanish3005%
- Swahili2294%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,935 | 66% |
| Indonesian | 462 | 8% |
| Amharic | 396 | 7% |
| Spanish | 300 | 5% |
| Swahili | 229 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Tonga Fifitab. 1959TOTongan professional wrestler
- Steve Fifitab. 1982USAmerican football player (born 1982)
- Tanga Loab. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Vaea Fifitab. 1992NZTongan-New Zealand rugby union footballer
- Sosefo Fifitab. 2003NZAustralian rugby league footballer
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TO Tonga | The page provides detailed information about Tongan surnames, their meanings, and cultural significance, published by su | 2026 | 2.3K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 722 | #33,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 702 | #32,710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 477 | #42,757 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 3 | #33 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 2 | #57 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fifita?
- We estimate roughly 702 people bear Fifita (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Fifita have the most bearers?
- Fifita is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled fifita.
- How common is Fifita compared with other names?
- In Tonga, Fifita is the 4th most common surname of 21 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Fifita mean?
- Recorded meaning: A surname from Tongan.
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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, “Fifita” — the 4th most common surname in Tonga. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.