Favour
Latin at root, meaning "favour" or "grace". Fewer than 30 people in Poland carry it, split almost evenly between women and men, so most Poles have never met one.
Favour Pronunciation
What Favour means
Where Favour comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Favour comes from the Latin favor, which meant goodwill, approval, and the backing of someone with power. The English words favour and favourable descend from that same root. The name says plainly what it holds: favour, grace.
The Latin gave the word. West Africa gave the name its home. Across Nigeria, Favour is a common given name, used for girls and boys alike. The sprinter Favour Ofili, born in 2002, runs under it for Nigeria. A short name, and a direct one.
There are no diminutives here, no clipped pet form to soften it. Favour stands as it is written, on a birth certificate or a school register. The meaning sits on the surface, the same in English as in the Latin favor behind it: favour, and grace.
How many people are named Favour
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Favour. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8046 among female names.
Favour as a middle name
Favour is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1716th, between Emine (18) and Georgiana (18).
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#1714 Elke18
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#1715 Emine18
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#1716 Favour18
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#1717 Georgiana18
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#1718 Illona18