Maffia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmæfiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maffia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 632K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 68K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 145K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maffia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 68K | listed | Maffia | 19 |
| US United States | 526 | 1 in 632K | 537 | Maffia | 159 |
| AR Argentina | 313 | 1 in 145K | 313 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 194 | 1 in 1.1M | 194 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 602K | — | Maffia | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Maffia | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 22 | 1 in 154K | 22 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Maffia | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Maffia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Mattia
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Mattei
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Italian, variant of Mattia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Formerly standard spelling of Mafia which was deprecated in 2011.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by mafia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vincenzo Maffiab. 1598Roman Catholic bishop
- Pedro Maffiab. 1899ARArgentine musician (1899-1967)
- Dante Maffiab. 1946ITItalian poet and writer
- Marta Maffiab. 1948ARArgentine philosopher and anthropologist (1948-)
- Roma Maffiab. 1955USAmerican actress
- Lisa Maffiab. 1979GBBritish singer
- Paula Maffíab. 1983ARArgentinian singer, guitarist and composer
- Daniel Maffiab. 1993ITItalian ice hockey player
- Serena MaffiaITItalian writer
- Marta MaffiaItalian linguist
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 537 | #38,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 534 | #43,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 526 | #41,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 313 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 194 | #37,693 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 22 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Maffia mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Maffia?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæfiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maffia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 920 people named Maffia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maffia.
- How common is the name Maffia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 526 people named Maffia in 2010, about 1 in 632 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maffiaThe 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, “Maffia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.