Negar

given name · English · Latin script

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

Negar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Azerbaijan it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Persian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr).

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 282◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 2.9K
  • KGKyrgyzstan1 in 7.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
142 ●

270K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

NigarLatin · Turkish●180K records
НигарCyrillic · Russian●5.9K records
ᲜიგარGeorgian · Georgian●528 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nigar in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 16 more, Нигяр in RU Russia, Нигар in KZ Kazakhstan and Нігар in UA Ukraine.

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●

A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Negar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#509186,467245K rec.——Nigar48
AZ Azerbaijan#1015,6552.1K rec.—610Nigar56
RU Russia—9,1895K rec.—#1,673Нигяр94
KG Kyrgyzstan—3,176278 rec.——Nigar8
IR Iran—2,3041.7K rec.——Negar46
DE Germany—2,2142.2K rec.—1Nigar62
IN India—893813 rec.—35Nigar31
US United States—7415.5K rec.1 in 449K741Negar142
AU Australia—685667 rec.—1Negar53
BG Bulgaria—582517 rec.——Nigar22
GB United Kingdom—577448 rec.——Negar47
CA Canada—478446 rec.——Negar50

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

Languages●

  • English4.3K25%
  • Persian2.9K17%
  • Hindi2.3K14%
  • Arabic9406%
  • 9225%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,30325%
Persian2,93617%
Hindi2,30414%
Arabic9406%
9225%

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◐

Negar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3.4K records spelled Negar7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Iran, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written নেগার, Neger, Nęgar

  • Spanish given name1.1K records spelled Negar4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iran, Venezuela, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Négar, Ņëğåř

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name409 records spelled Negar14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Türkiye

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Nigar, Niğar

  • Russian given name101 records spelled Negar4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Also written Негар, Нэгар, Негарь

37 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●

Negar 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 Portuguese, to deny

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Catalan, to deny (not allow)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lmo, to drown

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, weeping

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, ‘tears’

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

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●

05101520194019601980200019 · 1991

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Negar in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1924–2015
Yearrecords
19241
19251
19282
19291
19361
19371
19382
19391
19411
19466
19471
19483
19492
19513
19522
19531
19543
19552
19561
19571
19581
19594
19604
19613
196212
196311
19644
19657
19661
196711
196810
19696
19705
19716
19722
197311
19746
19756
19767
197713
19786
197910
19808
198111
198210
198317
198416
198517
19866
19878
19889
198911
19906
199119
199211
199310
199411
19954
19962
19977
19981
20083
20105
20121
20132
20145
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 67 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Negar Mottahedeh, b. 1968Négar Djavadi, b. 1969Negar Abedi, b. 1971Negar Azarbayjani, b. 1974Negar Foruzandeh, b. 1978Negar Mortazavi, b. 1981Negar Javaherian, b. 1983Negar Khan, b. 1984Nikki Amini, b. 1984

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 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Negar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020741#15,428
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—201#5,219
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—184#5,101
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019158—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020156—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018147—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017139—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016133—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015126—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014119—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013115—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012115—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Negar?
We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Negar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Negar have the most bearers?
Negar is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled nigar.
How common is Negar compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Negar is the 509th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Negar a male or female name?
Negar is a female 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 Negar mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr).
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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, “Negar” — the 509th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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