Farfán
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Farfán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.9K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, 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 Farfan in PE Peru, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 3 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.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farfán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #144 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Farfan | 98 |
| VE Venezuela | #319 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Farfan | 45 |
| AR Argentina | #451 | 14,778 | 1 in 3.1K | 15K | Farfan | 68 |
| CO Colombia | #512 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 7 | Farfan | 105 |
| EC Ecuador | #612 | 6,317 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.3K | Farfan | 41 |
| BO Bolivia | #149 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Farfan | 46 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Pedro Pascual Farfánb. 1870PEPeruvian Roman Catholic prelate
- Salvador Farfánb. 1932MXMexican footballer (1932–2023)
- Aura Elena Farfánb. 1940GTGuatemalan activist
- Juan Fernando Farfán Carrillob. 1947COColombian singer
- Kurt Burneob. 1961PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Carlos Farfánb. 1962ESSpanish basketball player
- Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdovab. 1974PEPeruvian Roman Catholic clergyman
- Rafael Farfánb. 1975PEfootballer
- Jefferson Farfánb. 1984PEPeruvian association football player
- Erick Pulgarb. 1994CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Farfán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Farfán in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farfan.
- How common is the name Farfán?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 14,778 people named Farfán, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Farfán compared with other names?
- In Peru, Farfán is the 144th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Farfán?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/farf%C3%A1nThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Farfán” — the 144th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.