Erfan
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries
/ˈɛrfan/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Erfan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 16K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 37Kfew records
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Erfan
- Indonesian:/ˈɛrfan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Erfan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Erfan | 96 |
| AF Afghanistan | #303 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Erfan | 12 |
| IN India | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 282K | 20 | Erfan | 35 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Erfan | 57 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Erfan | 23 |
| US United States | — | 377 | 1 in 882K | 370 | Erfan | 169 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Erfan | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 246 | 1 in 41K | 246 | Erfan | 13 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 37 | — | 2 |
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: the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Irrfan Khanb. 1967INnot in their usual nameIndian actor (1967–2020)
- Irfan Pathanb. 1984INnot in their usual nameIndian cricketer
- Irfan Bachdimb. 1988NLnot in their usual nameIndonesian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Erfan?
- In Indonesian /ˈɛrfan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Erfan a male or female name?
- Erfan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Erfan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Erfan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erfan. After it come Afghanistan, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Erfan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 377 people named Erfan in 2020, about 1 in 882 thousand residents.
- How common is Erfan compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Erfan is the 303rd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erfanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Erfan” — the 303rd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.