Cafú
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: SRCEI, 2017
Cafú is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.9Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2Mfew records
- COColombia≈1 in 12Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, 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 Cafu in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, US United States and 2 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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cafú is found
(measured from records)Cafú 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Cafu | 13 |
| CL Chile | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 1 | Cafu | 3 |
| MX Mexico | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Cafu | 7 |
| CO Colombia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Cafu | 4 |
| US United States | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 126M | — | Cafu | 5 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Cafú a male or female name?
- Cafú is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cafú?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Cafú in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cafu. After it come Chile, Mexico, Colombia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cafú?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Brazil have Cafú as their first surname, about 1 in 1.9 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Cafú?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caf%C3%BAThe 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, “Cafú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.