Asefa
org · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Asefa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 437(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 307Kas Assefa
- INIndia≈1 in 4M
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 Asefa 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Assefa in US United States, SE Sweden, CN China and 2 more and አሰፋ in ET Ethiopia.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asefa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #7 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | listed | አሰፋ | 52 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Assefa | 6 |
| US United States | — | 1,083as Assefa | 1 in 307K | 1.7K | Assefa | 190 |
| ME Montenegro | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 854 | — | Assefa | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 7 | Assefa | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 153as Assefa | 1 in 67K | 153 | Assefa | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 94as Assefa | 1 in 58K | 94 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 54as Assefa | 1 in 103K | 54 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 424 | #52,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,854 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #12,840 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Asefa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 247 thousand people named Asefa in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled አሰፋ.
- How common is the name Asefa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10 people named Asefa, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.
- How common is Asefa compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Asefa is the 7th most common surname of 22,571 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asefa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asefaThe 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, “Asefa” — the 7th most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.