Zarfati
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zarfati is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Recorded meaning: francés; French.
- ILIsrael1 in 1.5Kas צרפתי(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 37Kas Sarfati
- ITItaly≈1 in 231K
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 Zarfati 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 231K (inferred from the name graph)
5,603 named צרפתי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled צרפתי in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 3 more and Sarfati in FR France.
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(measured from records)
francés; French
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zarfati 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #148 | 5,603as צרפתי | 1 in 1.5K | 5.6K | צרפתי | 47 |
| IQ Iraq | #536 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | צרפתי | 1 |
| MA Morocco | #994 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | צרפתי | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 283 | Sarfati | 231 |
| TN Tunisia | #499 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | צרפתי | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | צרפתי | 3 |
| QA Qatar | #238 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | צרפתי | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 231K | listed | Zarfati | 39 |
5,603 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Semah Sarfatib. 1624ILTunisian rabbi
- Maurice Sarfatib. 1931FRFrench actor (1931–2013)
- Alain Sarfatib. 1937FRFrench architect and urban planner
- Giancarlo Zarfatib. 1946ITItalian actor
- Lise Sarfatib. 1958FRFrench photographer (born 1958)
- Sonia Sarfatib. 1960FRCanadian journalist, radio host and writer
- Jonathan Sarfatib. 1964NZAustralian writer and chess player
- Daniela Sarfatib. 1974PEPeruvian actor
- Lea Micheleb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer
- Laurent Sarfatiscreenwriter
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(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zarfati mean, and where does it come from?
- francés; French Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Zarfati have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named צרפתי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zarfati?
- In Israel, the national register counted 5,603 people named צרפתי in 2017, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Zarfati compared with other names?
- In Israel, Zarfati is the 148th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zarfatiThe 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, “Zarfati” — the 148th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.