Jaffar
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaffar is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Bahrain it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: rivulet.
- MYMalaysia1 in 44K◐
- PKPakistan1 in 46K
- INIndia1 in 126K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈452 ●
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 76K ◐
across 4 countries
29K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
rivulet
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 25,826 | 12K rec. | — | 54 | Jaffar | 70 |
| PK Pakistan | #789 | 4,054 | 579 rec. | — | 2 | Jaffar | 49 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,482 | 4.8K rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 43 |
| SY Syria | — | 711 | 984 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 11 |
| FR France | — | 643 | 1.1K rec. | — | 14 | Jaffar | 103 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 613 | 326 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 53 |
| BH Bahrain | #19 | 584 | 306 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 476 | 504 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 59 |
| US United States | — | 286 | 4.8K rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 357 | Jaffar | 116 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 272 | 347 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 59 |
| AU Australia | — | 213 | 448 rec. | — | 1 | Jaffar | 43 |
| PH Philippines | — | 185 | 301 rec. | — | — | Jaffar | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English9.1K19%
- Hindi8K17%
- Urdu6.9K14%
- 5.3K11%
- Assamese4.3K9%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,149 | 19% |
| Hindi | 8,043 | 17% |
| Urdu | 6,859 | 14% |
| 5,321 | 11% | |
| Assamese | 4,260 | 9% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1957 | 3 |
| 1958 | 2 |
| 1959 | 1 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 3 |
| 1963 | 2 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 3 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 4 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 15 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 59 years between 1923–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jafar Aghab. 1806not in their usual namegeneral of the Kurdish origin in the Russian Imperial Army
- Jeffar Khaldib. 1964PSnot in their usual namePalestinian artist
- Jaffar Sanya Jussab. 1964TZTanzanian politician
- Jaffar Nazirb. 1977PKPakistani first class cricketer
- Pothiolb. 1986GNnot in their usual nameGuinean actor
- Jaffar Ashrafb. 1998PKPakistani athletics competitor
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 45 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 4.3K | #1,170 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 357 | #60,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 286 | #30,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 134 | #6,998 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 128 | #19,268 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 65 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #10,916 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jaffar?
- We estimate roughly 452 people bear Jaffar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jaffar have the most bearers?
- Jaffar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled jaffar.
- How common is Jaffar compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Jaffar is the 19th most common given name of 2,246 given names recorded there.
- Is Jaffar a male or female name?
- Jaffar 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 Jaffar mean?
- Recorded meaning: rivulet
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaffarThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Jaffar” — the 19th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.