Jafar

Where Jafar comes from

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar). A transliteration of an Arabic and Persian male given name.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jafar
  • Arabic
Jafar through the years
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #5,464 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Peak, #2,347
    33 babies named Jafar, the most in any year.
  3. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #4,280.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, Persian
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.