Laffin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Lavin
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Laffin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 110Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 150Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 150K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
886 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinLavinia(inferred from the name graph)via Lavin
- SpanishLavín(inferred from the name graph)via Lavin
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Lavin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laffin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 886 | 1 in 375K | 886 | Laffin | 198 |
| FR France | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 146K | 77 | — | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 610K | — | Laffin | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Laffin | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Laffin | 58 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Laffin | 56 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Laffin | 2 |
886 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Mike Laffinb. 1918CACanadian politician
- John Laffinb. 1922AUAustralian historian, journalist and writer
- André Laffinb. 1922FRFrench politician (1922-1966)
- Dominique Laffinb. 1952FRFrench actress (1952-1985)
- Eric LaffinFRFrench male curler
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 886 | #27,277 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 861 | #26,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 843 | #29,787 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 33 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Laffin mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Lavin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Laffin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 886 people named Laffin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laffin.
- How common is the name Laffin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 886 people named Laffin in 2010, about 1 in 375 thousand 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/laffinThe 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, “Laffin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.