Ghaffari
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Arabic family name GhaffarT, denoting someone descended from an ancestor bearing the name Ghajfdr, from Arabic ghajfdr ‘merciful’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ghaffari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 142K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 517K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 15K
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)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Arabic family name GhaffarT, denoting someone descended from an ancestor bearing the name Ghajfdr, from Arabic ghajfdr ‘merciful’. Al-Ghajfdr ‘the Merciful’ is an attribute of Allah.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghaffari 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ghaffari | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 1 | Ghaffari | 26 |
| US United States | 644 | 1 in 517K | 717 | Ghaffari | 196 |
| IR Iran | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Ghaffari | 52 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Ghaffari | 16 |
| SE Sweden | 101 | 1 in 101K | 101 | Ghaffari | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Ghaffari | 23 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
- Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffarib. 1814IRIranian painter (1814-1866)
- Cihangir Ghaffarib. 1940IRIranian actor
- Mohammad Bagher Ghaffarib. 1944USHistorian of Iranian theatre and Ta'zieh, and theater director
- Matt Ghaffarib. 1961IRIranian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, mixed martial artist
- Ali Ghaffarib. 1967IRIranian actor
- Rozita Ghaffarib. 1973IRIranian actress
- Mohammad-Reza Ghaffarib. 1985IRIranian actor
- Mohamed Aziz Ghaffarib. 2000TNTunisian swimmer
- Ahmad Ghaffari QazviniIR16th-century Iranian scribe and historian
- Earl Ghaffarimusic 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 717 | #34,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 644 | #35,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 512 | #40,265 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 101 | #7,160 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #612 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- Where does the name Ghaffari come from?
- from the Arabic family name GhaffarT, denoting someone descended from an ancestor bearing the name Ghajfdr, from Arabic ghajfdr ‘merciful’. Al-Ghajfdr ‘the Merciful’ is an attribute of Allah. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Ghaffari mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Arabic family name GhaffarT, denoting someone descended from an ancestor bearing the name Ghajfdr, from Arabic ghajfdr ‘merciful’.
- In which country does Ghaffari have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Ghaffari in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghaffari.
- How common is the name Ghaffari?
- In the United States, the national register counted 644 people named Ghaffari in 2010, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghaffariThe 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, “Ghaffari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.