The Marfil surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 423 people carried this name — #49,636 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 26% from 336 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Marfil surname
A surname, mostly found in Málaga province in Andalusia.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Marfil» (Spanish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 710 people named Marfil 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 84 people named Marfil.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
29 people named Marfil 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 Marfil,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mariano Marfil 1883–1939 · military personnel -
José Marfil Peralta 1921–2018 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Marfil.
- Mares 14,931 · U.S. census
- Maresca 1,849 · U.S. census
- Mareschal 100 · U.S. census
- Maret 410 · U.S. census
- Marette 122 · U.S. census
- Marez 3,056 · U.S. census
- Marfisi 202 · U.S. census
- Margarit 125 · U.S. census
- Marge 138 · U.S. census
- Marget 113 · U.S. census
- Margiotta 1,077 · U.S. census
- Margo 588 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Marfil is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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