Çulfa

surname · Latin script

Çulfa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 13Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Çulfa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Record sources
32 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Culfa in TR Türkiye, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more and Julfa in PH Philippines.

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Çulfa is found

(measured from records)

Çulfa 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.

Where Çulfa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈1,900 est.≈1 in 45K—Culfa32
AZ Azerbaijan≈81 est.≈1 in 127K—Culfa3
DE Germany≈25 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Culfa26
US United States≈11 est.≈1 in 30M—Culfa18
PH Philippines≈9 est.≈1 in 13M—Julfa9
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—2
KZ Kazakhstan≈3 est.≈1 in 7M—Culfa2

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Çulfa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Culfa

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Culfa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Culfa, Julfa

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Culfa

3 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çulfa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Çulfa?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Çulfa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled culfa. After it come Azerbaijan, Germany, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Çulfa?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Çulfa in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Çulfa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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