MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Japhar mean?
Jafar comes from Arabic jaʿfar, a word for a stream. It is an established personal name whose imagery is flowing water.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जाफ़र
Conventional spelling
Arabic
جعفر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जाफर
15,554 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Japhar in Indian usage
15,554 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling जाफर.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,157 records (7.4%).
- Recorded as male: 14,397 records (92.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 191 |
| 1940s | 810 |
| 1950s | 1,624 |
| 1960s | 2,566 |
| 1970s | 3,238 |
| 1980s | 4,176 |
| 1990s | 2,949 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,296 |
| Maharashtra | 2,929 |
| Rajasthan | 2,005 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,418 |
| Bihar | 1,249 |
| Other states | 657 |
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.