Throughout the world, Afkar (افكار 
, Afkar 
) is quite a common gender-neutral first name. The first name Afkar is habitual in Sudan, where it is quite a rare principally female, but scarcely male name, Iraq, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and Egypt, where it is a rare mostly girly, but seldom boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Sudan, Indonesia, and Egypt. Much less frequently, Afkar is the last name as well as the forename.