Tafoya
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɑˈfɔɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tafoya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 48th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 33K(measured from records)
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
10,114 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tafoya 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 | — | 10,114 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Tafoya | 202 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | 116 | Tafoya | 114 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | — | Tafoya | 7 |
| CU Cuba | #170 | — | — | — | Tafoya | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | — | Tafoya | 5 |
| SM San Marino | #768 | — | — | — | Tafoya | 2 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #48 | — | — | — | Tafoya | 1 |
10,114 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
- Camilio Sunflower Tafoyab. 1902USNative American potter (1902–1995)
- Arthur Nicholas Tafoyab. 1933USCatholic bishop (1933–2018)
- LuAnn Tafoyab. 1938USNative American ceramicist
- Francis Tafoyab. 1947USPueblo artist
- Michele Tafoyab. 1964USAmerican sportscaster
- Adriana Tafoyab. 1974MXMexican writer
- Joe Tafoyab. 1978USAmerican football player
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9K | #3,621 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 116 | #1,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tafoya?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑˈfɔɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tafoya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Tafoya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tafoya.
- Where is Tafoya most common?
- Tafoya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tafoya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,114 people named Tafoya in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Tafoya compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Tafoya is the 48th most common surname of 221 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tafoyaThe 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, “Tafoya” — the 48th most common surname in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.