Mafija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mafija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750Kas Mafia(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.5Mas Mafia
- BRBrazil1 in 4.3Mas Mafia
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mafija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
49 named Mafia, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Guyana, as Mafia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mafija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 49as Mafia | 1 in 4.3M | 656 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 34as Mafia | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1as Mafia | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 9 | Mafija | 4 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | — | — | Mafija | 1 |
49 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Mafija is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, sala Indijas okeānā ("Mafia"), Āfrikas austrumu piekrastē, Tanzānijā, platība - 442 kvadrātkilometri, koraļļu kaļķakmeņi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Noziedzīga organizācija, kurā līdzdarbojas arī valsts varas amatpersonas (piem., Itālijā, ASV, Krievijā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Cilvēku grupa, ko vieno kopīgas, pārējai sabiedrībai slēptas intereses
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Slepena organizācija, kas 18. gs. beigās izveidojās Sicīlijā
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mafija a male or female name?
- Mafija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Mafija?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 49 people named Mafia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mafija most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mafija itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 750 thousand people named Mafia.
- How common is the name Mafija?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 49 people named Mafia in 2022, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mafija?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mafijaThe 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, “Mafija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.