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Zafar

#10,657 in 2025Boys' name

Victory

Zafar has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #10,657 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Zafar, 2025

1 in 474,000

Zafar 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zafar: meaning, origin, and history

Victory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zafar means

Zafar means “victory”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 146 boys were recorded with the name Zafar between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,323 in 2017.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Zafar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,657
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zafar 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zafar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zafars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zafar was born before 2016 — so the typical Zafar is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
146
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Zafar 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
+3,574
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2017 (14)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,323
2017

Spellings of Zafar

Zafar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 35.5% against Zafar's 0.15%.

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 Zafar is used

Across 1910–2025, Zafar was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Zafar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zafar around the world

Where Zafar 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zafar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,657
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,323
2017
Peak year
2017
14 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Zafar

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

ZafirJafarJaffarZafariJaafarZafeerZaferAzfarMuzaffar

Sibling names for Zafar

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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