Gafur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Bağışlayan, merhamet eden
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəfɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gafur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 29Kas Гафур(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 92Kas Гафур
- XKKosovo≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gafur itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Гафур in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and Gofur in BD Bangladesh.
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)
1. Bağışlayan, merhamet eden. 2. Allah’ın adlarındandır.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gafur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Gafur | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 85K | listed | Gofur | 46 |
| TJ Tajikistan | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Гафур | 6 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 92K | #620 | Гафур | 101 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Gafur | 8 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 421 | Гафур | 34 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 263 | — | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | 380as Гафур | 1 in 5.6K | 380 | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | 68 | 1 in 45K | 68 | — | — |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; State Statistical Office — living population names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
- Gafur Rashad Mirzazadehb. 1884AZAzerbaijani educator, geographer, translator and editor
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- How do you pronounce Gafur?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəfɝ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Gafur mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Bağışlayan, merhamet eden.
- Is Gafur a male or female name?
- Gafur 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 Gafur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Gafur in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gafur.
- How common is the name Gafur?
- In Albania, the national register counted 68 people named Gafur, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gafur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gafurThe 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, “Gafur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.