MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaphphar mean?
Ghaffar is an intensive Arabic form built on the root for forgiving or covering a fault. Al-Ghaffar is a divine epithet, and the word also occurs in personal names.
Meaning themes
forgiveness
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ग़फ़्फ़ार
Conventional spelling
Arabic
غفار
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गफ्फार
12,789 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaphphar in Indian usage
14,055 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,017 records (7.2%).
- Recorded as male: 13,038 records (92.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,000 |
| 1950s | 2,106 |
| 1960s | 3,237 |
| 1970s | 3,439 |
| 1980s | 2,826 |
| 1990s | 1,052 |
| Other decades | 395 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,791 |
| Maharashtra | 2,623 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,618 |
| Bihar | 1,156 |
| Rajasthan | 923 |
| Haryana | 352 |
| Jharkhand | 346 |
| Other states | 246 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001