Zamfir
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Romanian: sapphire
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zamfir/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zamfir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 23K
- ESSpain1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sapphire
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Zamfir is read(measured from records)
Zamfir is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Romanian46%
sapphire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ZAMFÍR, zamfire, s. n. (Înv. și pop.) Safir [Pl. și: zamfiruri].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- English17%
Gheorghe, Romanian panpiper
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zamfir in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zamfir 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
- Mihai Zamfirb. 1940RORomanian literary historian, writer, essayist
- Gheorghe Zamfirb. 1941RORomanian pan flute musician
- Cătălin Zamfirb. 1941RORomanian politician and sociologist
- Nicolae Zamfirb. 1944RORomanian association football player and manager
- Constantin Zamfirb. 1951RORomanian association football player
- Mihai Zamfirb. 1955ROassociation football player
- Niculae Zamfirb. 1958RORomanian wrestler
- Mircea Zamfirb. 1985RORomanian gymnast
- Florina Cristina Burcea-Zamfirb. 1989RORomanian handball player
- Constantin ZamfirRORomanian politician from Barcea, Galați, Gorj County
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 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 890 | #4,909 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 890 | #4,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #13,302 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Zamfir mean, and where does it come from?
- sapphire Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zamfir?
- A machine transcription gives /zamfir/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Zamfir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Zamfir in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zamfir.
- How common is the name Zamfir?
- In Spain, the national register counted 890 people named Zamfir, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Zamfir compared with other names?
- In Romania, Zamfir is the 107th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zamfirThe 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, “Zamfir” — the 107th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.