Fofana: Surname History and Family Crest

Here is a quick, sourced look at the Fofana surname. Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Fofana, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

In Spain, the INE population register lists 2,461 people with Fofana as their first surname and 486 as their second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. From 1891 to 2000, 3,153 births in France were registered under Fofana.

If a Fofana family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. Want more than a summary? See the Fofana family name pack.