Zafirova
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zəfaɪoʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zafirova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
- HRCroatia≈1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zafirova itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Зафирова in RU Russia.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zafirova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #884 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Zafirova | 56 |
| MK North Macedonia | #412 | 692as Зафирова | 1 in 3.1K | 692 | Zafirova | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Зафирова | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | Zafirova | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Zafirova | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Zafirova | 4 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Ilka Zafirovab. 1941BGBulgarian actress
- Erika Zafirovab. 1999BGBulgarian rhythmic gymnast
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Zafirova?
- A machine transcription gives /zəfaɪoʊvə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Zafirova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 741 people named Zafirova in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zafirova.
- How common is the name Zafirova?
- In Spain, the national register counted 19 people named Zafirova, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Zafirova compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Zafirova is the 884th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zafirova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zafirovaThe 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, “Zafirova” — the 884th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.