Kafri
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a term of con- tempt used by Mahom- medans against idol and spirit-worshippers
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəfɹɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kafri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 10Kas כפרי(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- INIndia1 in 147M
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 Kafri 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
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
863 named כפרי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled קפרי in IN India, YE Yemen, MA Morocco and 1 more and כפרי in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, RO Romania.
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)
a term of con- tempt used by Mahom- medans against idol and spirit-worshippers
Sources 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kafri 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 | 863as כפרי | 1 in 10K | 863 | כפרי | 33 |
| RO Romania | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | כפרי | 2 |
| YE Yemen | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | קפרי | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | כפרי | 2 |
| MA Morocco | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | קפרי | 2 |
| QA Qatar | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | קפרי | 1 |
| IN India | 9 | 1 in 147M | 9 | קפרי | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
863 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"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kafri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Kosi - tauta Dienvidāfrikā, nosaukums, ko tai XVIII gs. devuši eiropieši
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mordéhaï Kafrib. 1920PLPolish sculptor
- Yehudit Kafrib. 1935ILIsraeli poet, author and editor (1935–2026)
- Ezra Kafrib. 1941ILIsraeli actor and painter
- Daniel Kafrib. 1945ILIsraeli sculptor
- Tommy Kafrib. 1976ILIsraeli athlete
- Iva Kafrib. 1981ILIsraeli artist
- Roy Kafrib. 1985ILIsraeli entertainer
- Moshe KafriILresearcher
- Michal KafriILresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9405-5699
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #129,253 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kafri mean, and where does it come from?
- a term of con- tempt used by Mahom- medans against idol and spirit-worshippers Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- How do you pronounce Kafri?
- A machine transcription gives /kəfɹɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kafri have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 863 people named כפרי, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kafri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kafri is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kafri?
- In India, the national register counted 9 people named Kafri, about 1 in 147 million 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/kafriThe 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, “Kafri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.