Négar

given name · Latin script

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

Négar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Iranian Persian نگار (negâr, “sweetheart; painting”).

rarermore common
  • IRIran≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 446K
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 11K

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.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,400 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NégarLatin(measured from records)
НегарCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Negar in US United States, IR Iran, CA Canada and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Iranian Persian نگار (negâr, “sweetheart; painting”).

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Négar 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 Négar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan#904≈3,400 est.≈1 in 11K—Negar5
IR Iran—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 48K—Negar53
US United States—7461 in 446K741Negar166
EG Egypt—≈680 est.≈1 in 154KlistedNegar13
CA Canada—≈260 est.≈1 in 144K—Negar72
SE Sweden—2011 in 51K201Negar13
NO Norway—≈64 est.≈1 in 86K184—6
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Négar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Iran, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Negar, Ņëğåř

1 further group 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)

Négar 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 rgn, black

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1960197019801990Negar Mottahedeh, b. 1968Négar Djavadi, b. 1969Negar Abedi, b. 1971Negar Azarbayjani, b. 1974Negar Foruzandeh, b. 1978Negar Mortazavi, b. 1981Negar Javaherian, b. 1983Negar Khan, b. 1984Nikki Amini, b. 1984

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Négar under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Négar mean, and where does it come from?
From Iranian Persian نگار (negâr, “sweetheart; painting”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Négar a male or female name?
Négar is a female 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 Négar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Négar in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled negar.
How common is the name Négar?
In the United States, the national register counted 746 people named Négar in 2020, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
How common is Négar compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Négar is the 904th most common given name of 21,469 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, “Négar” — the 904th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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