Kalfon

surname · Latin script

Meaning: great caliph; Tetuan, Tangier, Meknes, Fes, Sefrou, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Mogador-Essaouira, Gibraltar, Oran, Mascara, Tiaret, Algiers, Souk Ahras, Ain Beida, Philippeville, Tunis, Beja, Djerb

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kalfɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kalfon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 127K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 218K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈620 people, est.

Sources
174 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

great caliph; Tetuan, Tangier, Meknes, Fes, Sefrou, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Mogador-Essaouira, Gibraltar, Oran, Mascara, Tiaret, Algiers, Souk Ahras, Ain Beida, Philippeville, Tunis, Beja, Djerba

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kalfon 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 Kalfon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈620 est.≈1 in 110K96Kalfon174
US United States≈93 est.≈1 in 3.6MlistedKalfon24
IL Israel≈68 est.≈1 in 127K—Kalfon26
DZ Algeria≈53 est.≈1 in 812K—Kalfon1
CA Canada≈33 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Kalfon8
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8Kalfon4
CY Cyprus≈6 est.≈1 in 218K—Kalfon2

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Kalfon is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kalfōn

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel

    Also written Kàlfon

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Avraham Kalfon, b. 1900Pierre Kalfon, b. 1930Lucien Kalfon, b. 1936Jean-Pierre Kalfon, b. 1938Hector, b. 1946Brigitte Faugère, b. 1958François Kalfon, b. 1968Thierry Kalfon, b. 1968Yomtob Kalfon, b. 1986

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Kalfon, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kalfon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199196—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197179—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198173—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192111—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19016—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18912—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Kalfon mean, and where does it come from?
great caliph; Tetuan, Tangier, Meknes, Fes, Sefrou, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Mogador-Essaouira, Gibraltar, Oran, Mascara, Tiaret, Algiers, Souk Ahras, Ain Beida, Philippeville, Tunis, Beja, Djerb… Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Kalfon?
A machine transcription gives /kalfɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Kalfon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 620 people named Kalfon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalfon.
How common is the name Kalfon?
In Spain, the national register counted 8 people named Kalfon, about 1 in 6.3 million 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, “Kalfon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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