Cáfaro

surname · Latin script

Cáfaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 92K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 27K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 92K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,214 people, 2010

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cafaro in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cáfaro 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 Cáfaro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2141 in 274K1.2KCafaro73
AR Argentina4951 in 92K495Cafaro50
BR Brazil4121 in 514K412Cafaro39
UY Uruguay1251 in 27K125Cafaro19
CH Switzerland911 in 92K91Cafaro5
FI Finland241 in 232K24——

1,214 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Cáfaro is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Cafaro

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 Cáfaro 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

In which country does Cáfaro have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Cáfaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cafaro.
Where is Cáfaro most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cáfaro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cáfaro?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,214 people named Cáfaro in 2010, about 1 in 274 thousand 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, “Cáfaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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