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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Rafiq

Friend; companion; gentle

Rafiq means “Friend; companion; gentle”.

Origin language
Arabic / Urdu
First letter
R
Historical records
1,226

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Rafiq mean?

Rafiq is an Arabic word for a companion or friend. The same adjective can express gentleness, linking companionship with considerate treatment in the source vocabulary.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Arabic

رفيق

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

रफ़ीक़

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Rafiq in Indian usage

1,226 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Rafiq: records by birth decade1960s: 1541960s1970s: 3371970s1980s: 4441980s1990s: 1731990sOther decades: 118Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s154
1970s337
1980s444
1990s173
Other decades118

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Delhi550
Andhra Pradesh447
Goa116
Other states113
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: رفيق ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

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