The Fathi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 483 people carried this name — #44,500 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted. That is up 53% from 315 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 180 people named Fathi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 140 people named Fathi.
Most of them — 113 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
59 people named Fathi live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
259 people named Fathi are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Fathi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Abbas Fathi 1897–1946 · writer -
Abbas Fathi 1897–1946 · writer
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Mehdi Fat'hi 1939–2004 · actor -
Naglaa Fathi 1951– · actor -
Hassan Fathi 1900–1989 · architect
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Hassan Fathi 1900–1989 · architect
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fathi.
- Fasolo 318 · U.S. census
- Fass 912 · U.S. census
- Fassel 236 · U.S. census
- Fassio 250 · U.S. census
- Fassler 867 · U.S. census
- Fath 1,398 · U.S. census
- Fatima 1,820 · U.S. census
- Fattore 328 · U.S. census
- Fattori 151 · U.S. census
- Fau 180 · U.S. census
- Faubel 376 · U.S. census
- Faubert 629 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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