Tafoya
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tafoʝa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tafoya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 10,114 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. 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. 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
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
10,114 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Tafoya
- Spanish:/tafoʝa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Tafoya is found
(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)- Arthur Nicholas Tafoyab. 1933USCatholic bishop (1933–2018)
- Michele Tafoyab. 1964USAmerican sportscaster
- 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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tafoya?
- In Spanish /tafoʝa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Tafoya?
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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” — ranked 3532nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.