Marfà
surname · Latin script
Marfà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Марфа (Marfa).
- MDMoldova1 in 11K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 18K
- FIFinland1 in 328K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
313 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marfa in US United States.
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)- RussianМарфаMarfa(measured from records)
- LatinMartha(inferred from the name graph)via Марфа
- Ancient GreekΜάρθαMártha(inferred from the name graph)via Марфа
- Aramaicמַרְתָּאmartā“the mistress”(inferred from the name graph)via Марфа
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Russian Марфа (Marfa).
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marfà 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.
313 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Gaietà Marfà i Clivillésb. 1878ESSpanish politician
- Jordi Parpal i Marfàb. 1940ESSpanish politician (1940-2013)
- Carmen Marfa VivesESSpanish screenwriter
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marfà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Марфа (Marfa). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Marfà have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 313 people named Marfà, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marfà most common?
- Marfà is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marfà?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 313 people named Marfà, about 1 in 11 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/marf%C3%A0The 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, “Marfà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.