Abulafia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: médico, farmacêutico; Toledo, Galipoli, Smyrna, Salonika, Tiberias, Hebron, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Burgos, Mogador-Essaouira, Maroc, Rio de Janeiro, Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Italia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aβulafja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Abulafia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 56K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 379K
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abulafia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
238 named אבולעפיה, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אבולעפיה in IL Israel, AR Argentina.
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)médico, farmacêutico; Toledo, Galipoli, Smyrna, Salonika, Tiberias, Hebron, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Burgos, Mogador-Essaouira, Maroc, Rio de Janeiro, Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Italia, Murcia; bef. 1492
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Abulafia is found
(measured from records)Abulafia 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.
238 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"); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Meir Abulafiab. 1165ESSpanish rabbi
- Abraham Abulafiab. 1240ESSpanish Kabbalah teacher (1240-1291)
- David Abulafiab. 1949GBEnglish historian (1949–2026)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Abulafia?
- In Spanish /aβulafja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Abulafia mean?
- Recorded meaning: médico, farmacêutico; Toledo, Galipoli, Smyrna, Salonika, Tiberias, Hebron, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Burgos, Mogador-Essaouira, Maroc, Rio de Janeiro, Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Italia…
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Abulafia?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 238 people named אבולעפיה, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Abulafia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abulafia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abulafia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 120 people named Abulafia, about 1 in 379 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abulafiaThe 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, “Abulafia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.