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Jafar

#6,957 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly full river, through جَعْفَر

Jafar has been given to 671 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,957 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Jafar, 2025

1 in 276,000

Jafar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jafar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly full river, through جَعْفَر

Arabic

What Jafar means

Jafar belongs to the name family reached through Jafar → جَعْفَر. Its meaning is “full river”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar). A transliteration of an Arabic and Persian male given name.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jafar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jafar is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Jafar comes through Arabic جَعْفَر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include جَعْفَر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 671 boys were recorded with the name Jafar between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,363 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,813 in 2020 to #6,957 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,376 in 2015 to #6,957 in 2025.

How common is Jafar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,957
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jafar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jafar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jafars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jafar was born before 2005 — so the typical Jafar is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
671
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Jafar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,338
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,144
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,581
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.4%
Peak was 1994 (33)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,363
1994

Spellings of Jafar

Jafar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 18.4% against Jafar's 0.36%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jafar is used

Across 1910–2025, Jafar was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,029,051 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jafar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jafar around the world

Where Jafar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1992–2024
    #6,421
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jafar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,957
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,144
Best rank ever
#2,363
1994
Peak year
1994
33 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
671
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Jafar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jafar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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