Safta
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/safta/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Safta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Elisafta.
- ESSpain1 in 575K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 575K (inferred from the name graph)
87 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Clipping of Elisafta.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Safta 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.
87 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Safta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of saft
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of saft
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)- Anca Saftab. 1978RORomanian athletics competitor
- Nicoleta Balogb. 1994ROnot in their usual nameRomanian handball player
- Anastasia Saftab. 2004RORomanian tennis player
- Eugen SaftaRORomanian politician from Sadova, Dolj County
- Constantin SaftaRORomanian politician from Iordăcheanu, Prahova 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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 87 | #30,508 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 87 | #30,268 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #123,579 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #85,038 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #169,141 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Safta mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Elisafta. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Safta?
- In Indonesian /safta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Safta have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 87 people named Safta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Safta most common?
- Safta is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 575 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Safta?
- In Spain, the national register counted 87 people named Safta, about 1 in 575 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saftaThe 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, “Safta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.