Coffa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of coffee
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kofa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Coffa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 176K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 722K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 790Kfew records
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)top (framework at the top of a ship's mast)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Coffa is read
(measured from records)Coffa 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.
- Spanish37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Coffa in Spanish.
- English30%
Obsolete form of coffee.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian21%
top (framework at the top of a ship's mast)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do ár. quffa, cesta; indica artesão que fazia esse recipiente.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Coffa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 179K | listed | Coffa | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 98 | 1 in 176K | 98 | Coffa | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 63 | 1 in 722K | 63 | Coffa | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 794K | — | Coffa | 39 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Coffa | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Coffa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In scn, a basket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- J. Alberto Coffab. 1935ARArgentine philosopher
- Sam Coffab. 1936AUAustralian weightlifter
- Marina Coffab. 1951ITItalian actress (1951-2011)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 98 | #19,384 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 63 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Coffa come from?
- top (framework at the top of a ship's mast) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Coffa?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kofa/; in English /kɔfə/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /ˈkɔf.fa/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Coffa mean?
- In English, Obsolete form of coffee.
- In which country does Coffa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 people named Coffa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coffa.
- Where is Coffa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Coffa is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 176 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Coffa?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 98 people named Coffa in 2007, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coffaThe 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, “Coffa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.