Arfan
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arfan is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: intelligent; knowing.
- PKPakistan1 in 1.5K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 5K
- INIndia1 in 5.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.1K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 210 ●
- 1 in 8.4K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
287K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Irfan in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 17 more and อิรฟาน in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
intelligent; knowing
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #577 | 631,187 | 194K rec. | — | 1.4K | Irfan | 196 |
| PK Pakistan | #27 | 124,050 | 14K rec. | — | listed | Irfan | 124 |
| MY Malaysia | #359 | 12,926 | 14K rec. | — | — | Irfan | 54 |
| TH Thailand | — | 11,723 | 7.8K rec. | — | #792,945 | อิรฟาน | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,186 | 6.6K rec. | — | 4 | Irfan | 107 |
| DE Germany | — | 7,708 | 7.5K rec. | — | 1 | Irfan | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 4,730 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Arfan | 115 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 4,280 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Irfan | 51 |
| US United States | — | 2,212 | 25K rec. | 1 in 150K | 2.2K | Irfan | 210 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,150 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Irfan | 103 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,488 | 1.6K rec. | — | 2 | Irfan | 62 |
| BD Bangladesh | #636 | 1,456 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Irfan | 71 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian6.1K23%
- Hindi4K15%
- English3K11%
- Urdu2.7K10%
- 2.4K9%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 6,066 | 23% |
| Hindi | 4,002 | 15% |
| English | 2,986 | 11% |
| Urdu | 2,658 | 10% |
| 2,415 | 9% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Arfan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Gratitud
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of arfar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 22 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 13 years between 2008–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Norarfan ZainalBNnot in their usual nameBruneian academic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arfan?
- We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Arfan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arfan have the most bearers?
- Arfan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled irfan.
- How common is Arfan compared with other names?
- In India, Arfan is the 577th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Arfan a male or female name?
- Arfan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Arfan mean?
- Recorded meaning: intelligent; knowing
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arfan” — the 577th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.