Ghafour
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
Ghafour is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 49Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IQIraq≈1 in 73Kfew records
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈770 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ghafour 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | Ghafour | 24 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Ghafour | 20 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | — | 3 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Ghafour | 3 |
| US United States | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Ghafour | 33 |
| SE Sweden | 57 | 1 in 179K | 57 | Ghafour | 9 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Ebrahim Ghafourib. 1960IRnot in their usual nameIranian cinematographer
- Nemam Ghafourib. 1968IQnot in their usual nameKurdish-Swedish physician
- Morteza Ghafurib. 1979IRnot in their usual nameIranian cinematographer
- Amir Ghafourb. 1991IRIranian volleyball player
- Pegah Ghafoorib. 1999not in their usual nameiranian-Canadian actress (born 1999)
- Yazdan QafouriGBnot in their usual nameactor and singer
- Mostafa Ghafouri MoghaddamIRnot in their usual nameIranian entomologist
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 57 | #11,301 |
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
- In which country does Ghafour have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 772 people named Ghafour in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghafour.
- How common is the name Ghafour?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 57 people named Ghafour, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ghafour?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghafourThe 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, “Ghafour”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.