Afkar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Afkar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: thoughts; meditations;.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
6 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
thoughts; meditations;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afkar 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Afkar | 3 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Afkar | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Afkar | 10 |
6 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Afkar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, pl. of Fikr ,S3, intellect, thought
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, plural of Fikr: intellect, thought
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #72,249 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #129,864 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Afkar mean, and where does it come from?
- thoughts; meditations; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- In which country does Afkar have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6 people named Afkar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afkar.
- Where is Afkar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Afkar is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Afkar?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Afkar in 2007, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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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, “Afkar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.