Irfan

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Irfan is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: loric.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
210 ●

287K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.4K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

IrfanLatin · Hindi●498K records
อิรฟานThai · Thai●2.7K records
ইরফানBengali · Bangla●185 records
이르판Hangul · Korean●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arfan in ID Indonesia, SY Syria 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●

loric

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Irfan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#577631,187194K rec.—1.4KIrfan196
PK Pakistan#27124,05014K rec.—listedIrfan124
MY Malaysia#35912,92614K rec.——Irfan54
TH Thailand—11,7237.8K rec.—#792,945อิรฟาน57
GB United Kingdom—11,1866.6K rec.—4Irfan107
DE Germany—7,7087.5K rec.—1Irfan113
ID Indonesia—4,7301.5K rec.—listedArfan115
TR Türkiye—4,2803.8K rec.——Irfan51
US United States—2,21225K rec.1 in 150K2.2KIrfan210
AU Australia—2,1502.6K rec.—1Irfan103
CA Canada—1,4881.6K rec.—2Irfan62
BD Bangladesh#6361,4561.8K rec.——Irfan71

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi498K30%
  • Turkish453K28%
  • Urdu192K12%
  • Indonesian175K11%
  • 124K8%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi497,77730%
Turkish453,34328%
Urdu192,42112%
Indonesian174,54111%
123,8708%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Irfan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name462K records spelled Irfan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written I'Rfan

  • Indonesian given name237K records spelled Irfan14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Irfan, Irfan', Irfàñ, Irfän, Irfân

  • a separate given name147K records spelled Irfan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Irfān, Īrfan

  • Arabic given name33K records spelled Irfan66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India, Türkiye

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written Įrfåń, Irfãñ, Îřfăñ, Iřfaň, Ìřfäń

  • Spanish given name8.8K records spelled Irfan26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Īrfǎñ, Īrfāñ, Iřfåñ, Ířfâñ, Irfáñ

  • French given name7.9K records spelled Irfan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Türkiye, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Íŕfáń, Irfàn, Īřfāñ, Irfán, Îrfan

  • Croatian given name3.9K records spelled Irfan20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Türkiye

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

    Also written Ирфан, Ìŕfàň, Îřfãñ, Îřfãń, Îřfâň

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Irfan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Bilme, anlama 2. Kültür, ekin. 3. Tasavvufta, evrenin sırlarını bilme gücü.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)

  • In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. ‘iifön »Wissen«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • recognition; knowledge;

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • In Arabic, knowledge, learning, perception, erudition, discernment, science, wisdom

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, knowledge, learning, erudition

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

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●

020406019001950200041 · 1984

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Irfan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1879–2024
Yearrecords
18791
19061
19111
19131
19152
19162
19171
19191
19211
19221
19231
19241
19253
19291
19302
19313
19321
19331
19345
19353
19363
19373
19383
19404
19412
19424
19431
19445
19455
19462
19474
19484
19497
19504
19513
19524
19536
19547
19556
19569
19577
19586
19593
196010
19619
196210
19638
196415
19657
196615
19678
19685
196913
197013
197112
19728
197320
197417
197517
197622
197718
197824
197931
198034
198131
198223
198340
198441
198532
198640
198733
198835
198931
199035
199115
199230
199329
199425
199513
19969
19979
199816
19997
20009
200111
200212
200310
20042
20055
20066
20074
20086
20092
20102
20113
20123
20134
20145
20151
20164
20172
20211
20232
20241

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 104 years between 1879–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Irfan Shahid, b. 1926Irfan Habib, b. 1931Irfan Smajlagić, b. 1961Irrfan Khan, b. 1967Irfan Khan, b. 1974İrfan Değirmenci, b. 1977Irfan Pathan, b. 1984Irfan Bachdim, b. 1988Irfan Karim, b. 1992İrfan Kahveci, b. 1995

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 71 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Irfan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#7,020
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,645
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.4K#4,200
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1K#692
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010698#32,865
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—578#2,286
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—538#7,539
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—538#7,525
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—423#5,125
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—421#3,121
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—383#2,566
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—367#1,208

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 542 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Irfan?
We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Irfan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Irfan have the most bearers?
Irfan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled irfan.
How common is Irfan compared with other names?
In India, Irfan is the 577th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Irfan a male or female name?
Irfan 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 Irfan mean?
Recorded meaning: loric
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Irfan” — the 577th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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