MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jafar mean?
Jafar comes from Arabic Ja'far, written جعفر, a word for a stream. The water image belongs to the older Arabic name and travelled into Persian, Urdu and Indian naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जाफ़र
Conventional spelling
Arabic
جعفر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जफर
22,415 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jafar in Indian usage
9,855 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 114 records (1.2%).
- Recorded as male: 9,741 records (98.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 311 |
| 1960s | 718 |
| 1970s | 2,467 |
| 1980s | 4,510 |
| 1990s | 1,677 |
| Other decades | 172 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 7,189 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,957 |
| Delhi | 433 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 132 |
| Other states | 144 |
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
- Wiktionary: جعفر ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.