The Lafon surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,588 people carried this name — #17,673 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 185,200 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,531 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Lafon surname
From the French surname, variant of Lafont, Lafond.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Lafon» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 6,591 people named Lafon.
115 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 91 départements, most often Gironde.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 275 people named Lafon live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Lafon live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Lafon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre Lafon 1773–1846 · actor -
Mary-Lafon 1810–1884 · writer -
Pierre Raymond Lafon de Beaulieu 1741–1823 · politician
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Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe Lafon 1765–1836 · physician
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Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe Lafon 1766–1836 · physician
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Barthelemy Lafon 1769–1820 · architect
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lafon.
- Laferte 130 · U.S. census
- Laffin 886 · U.S. census
- Laffitte 555 · U.S. census
- Lafitte 669 · U.S. census
- Lafleche 508 · U.S. census
- Lafleur 9,430 · U.S. census
- Lafond 4,112 · U.S. census
- Lafont 722 · U.S. census
- Lafontaine 3,652 · U.S. census
- Laforce 1,584 · U.S. census
- Lafore 220 · U.S. census
- Laforest 1,977 · U.S. census
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