Shafran

English

Etymology

From eastern Yiddish.

Proper noun

Shafran (plural Shafrans)

1. A surname from Yiddish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Shafran is the 38050^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 583 individuals. Shafran is most common among White (96.74%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shafran”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.