Afsar

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Afsar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: crest; crown; ruler; officer.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 7.2K
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 18K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

crest; crown; ruler; officer.

Sources 1

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Afsar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Afsar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#788≈23,000 est.≈1 in 7.2K—Afsar53
PK Pakistan#477≈16,000 est.≈1 in 15K2Afsar61
AF Afghanistan—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 18K—Afsar6
CN China—≈720 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Afsar4
ID Indonesia—≈660 est.≈1 in 406K—Afsar25
US United States—3131 in 1.1M278Afsar55
MY Malaysia—≈180 est.≈1 in 186K—Afsar12
SG Singapore—≈27 est.≈1 in 233K—Afsar5

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Afsar is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Afšār, Afşâr, Afšar, Āfsar, Afşar

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Afşar, Afšār

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Afşar

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Afşar, Afšār

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran, India, Switzerland

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Afşar, Äfsãr

  • Pashto given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Afšār

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Afsar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, crown

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Afsar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020191#28,616
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020122#28,616
PK PakistanMuslim given names (CC0)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Afsar mean, and where does it come from?
crest; crown; ruler; officer. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
Is Afsar a male or female name?
Afsar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Afsar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Afsar in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afsar.
How common is the name Afsar?
In the United States, the national register counted 313 people named Afsar in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Afsar compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Afsar is the 788th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Afsar” — the 788th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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