The Afonso surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,068 people carried this name — #22,481 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 250,000 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
847 people named Afonso live in Switzerland.
They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 697 people named Afonso.
Most of them — 490 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 51 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 36 people named Afonso live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Afonso.
- Adrion 175 · U.S. census
- Adrover 112 · U.S. census
- Aegerter 347 · U.S. census
- Aerts 494 · U.S. census
- Aeschlimann 241 · U.S. census
- Affolter 674 · U.S. census
- Agar 1,084 · U.S. census
- Agard 1,162 · U.S. census
- Agati 164 · U.S. census
- Agazzi 111 · U.S. census
- Agin 1,067 · U.S. census
- Agius 519 · U.S. census
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