The Maffei surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,169 people carried this name — #12,961 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 125,000 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 287 people named Maffei.
84 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 28 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
145 people named Maffei live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Maffei in American newspapers,
1902–1946.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 777 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Maffei,
with a public archive behind them.
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Paolo Maffei 1380–1455 · religious -
Celso Maffei 1425–1508 · religious -
Raffaello Maffei 1451–1522 · historian -
Nicola Maffei 1487–1536 · diplomat -
Giovanni Camillo Maffei 1501– · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 153 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Maffei.
- Maerten 118 · U.S. census
- Maertens 486 · U.S. census
- Maes 5,640 · U.S. census
- Maestre 595 · U.S. census
- Maestri 602 · U.S. census
- Maestro 164 · U.S. census
- Maffeo 684 · U.S. census
- Maffioli 126 · U.S. census
- Magalhaes 727 · U.S. census
- Magallon 3,774 · U.S. census
- Magan 785 · U.S. census
- Magana 27,571 · U.S. census
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