Ghafoor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Ghent . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɑfʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghafoor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 779K
- INIndia≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Ghent . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghafoor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #93 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 5 | Ghafoor | 101 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ghafoor | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #957 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ghafoor | 31 |
| IN India | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 29 | Ghafoor | 32 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #716 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ghafoor | 54 |
| US United States | — | 427 | 1 in 779K | 522 | Ghafoor | 147 |
| BH Bahrain | #946 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ghafoor | 10 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)
- Abdullah Ghafoorb. 1986PKPakistani weightlifter
- Fazal Ghafoorb. 1989PKPakistani politician
- Madiea Ghafoorb. 1992NLDutch athletics competitor
- Arif GhafoorUSPh.D. Columbia University 1985
- Iceman Nicknot in their usual nameJeweler and jewelry designer based in Houston, Texas
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 522 | #44,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 427 | #49,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 266 | #68,973 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #403 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #9,767 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #15,672 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 5 | #152 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ghafoor mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Ghent . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Ghafoor?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑfʊɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Ghafoor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Ghafoor in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghafoor.
- How common is the name Ghafoor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 427 people named Ghafoor in 2010, about 1 in 779 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghafoor compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ghafoor is the 93rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghafoorThe 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, “Ghafoor” — the 93rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.