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    The surname Zafra

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 940 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Z160

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zafra is more common than 83.9% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    From Spanish, of toponymic origin (after a city in Badajoz). Usually a common Filipino surname.

    Zafra is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 940 people named Zafra in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 328,453 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 657.

    #26,067
    rank among US surnames
    940
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +43.1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,900)

    Who is named Zafra

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    65% of people named Zafra identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 26% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.4% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 65%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 26%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Zafra

    Zafra has the Soundex code Z160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z160.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Zafra come from?
    From Spanish, of toponymic origin (after a city in Badajoz). Usually a common Filipino surname.
    How common is the surname Zafra?
    940 people in the United States had the surname Zafra in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 328,453 Americans. It ranked 26,067th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Zafra?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Zafra identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 26% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Zafra?
    Zafra is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Zafra getting more or less common?
    More common. 657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 940 in 2010, up 43%.