Jafr
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jafr is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script.
- BHBahrain1 in 334◐
- UZUzbekistan1 in 511
- TJTajikistan1 in 684
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 234 ●
- 1 in 18K ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
385K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zafar in PK Pakistan, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 5 more, Jaafar in MY Malaysia, FR France, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jafar in IN India, NG Nigeria, SY Syria and 3 more and Зафар in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 306,086 | 165K rec. | — | 1.3K | Jafar | 101 |
| PK Pakistan | #23 | 130,252 | 8.2K rec. | — | listed | Zafar | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 76,511 | 36K rec. | — | — | Jaafar | 82 |
| RU Russia | #627 | 35,618 | 24K rec. | — | #1,062 | Зафар | 107 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #63 | 26,598 | 1.9K rec. | — | listed | Зафар | 34 |
| NG Nigeria | #899 | 9,902 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Jafar | 47 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #152 | 6,910 | 1.8K rec. | — | listed | Zafar | 79 |
| SY Syria | #905 | 6,414 | 12K rec. | — | — | Jafar | 25 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #81 | 6,103 | 434 rec. | — | listed | Зафар | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,770 | 6.6K rec. | — | — | Zafar | 104 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 4,739 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Jafar | 106 |
| FR France | — | 4,140 | 4.2K rec. | — | 109 | Jaafar | 173 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi2.2K53%
- English41810%
- Urdu40410%
- Arabic3308%
- 1955%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 2,209 | 53% |
| English | 418 | 10% |
| Urdu | 404 | 10% |
| Arabic | 330 | 8% |
| 195 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #4,663 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jafr?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Jafr (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jafr have the most bearers?
- Jafr is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled jafar.
- How common is Jafr compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Jafr is the 23rd most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Jafr a male or female name?
- Jafr 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.
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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, “Jafr” — the 23rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.