Tăfă
surname · Latin script
Tăfă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 74K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tafa in EG Egypt, NG Nigeria, US United States and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tăfă counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Tafa | 24 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Tafa | 22 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Tafa | 18 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 75 | — | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | Tafa | 6 |
| US United States | 172 | 1 in 1.9M | 242 | Tafa | 82 |
| CH Switzerland | 138 | 1 in 61K | 138 | Tafa | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tăfă have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Tăfă in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tafa.
- How common is the name Tăfă?
- In the United States, the national register counted 172 people named Tăfă in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tăfă?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C4%83f%C4%83The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Tăfă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.