Ghazanfar

given name · Latin script

Meaning: lion. Title of Khalifa Ali

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡæzənfɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ghazanfar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9M
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 54K

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)

≈32,000 people, est.

Sources
109 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

lion. Title of Khalifa Ali. Raja Ghaznafar Ali Khan (1895-1963): Pakistani political leader

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ghazanfar 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.

Where Ghazanfar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#848≈32,000 est.≈1 in 7.2K1Ghazanfar94
AF Afghanistan—≈660 est.≈1 in 56K—Ghazanfar7
SA Saudi Arabia—≈640 est.≈1 in 54Klisted——
GB United Kingdom—≈140 est.≈1 in 488K—Ghazanfar54
US United States—1161 in 2.9M116Ghazanfar109
NO Norway—≈30 est.≈1 in 180K80Ghazanfar5
DK Denmark—161 in 367K19——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ghazanfar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Iran

    Also written Ghaz̤anfar

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written G̲h̲az̤anfar, G̲h̲aẓanfar, Ghaz̤anfar

  • Pashto given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, Afghanistan

    Also written Ghaẓanfar

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ghazanfar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, lion, title of Caliph Ali

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • lion, strong

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Informalہیلو Ghazanfar،Hi Ghazanfar, (English)

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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Ghazanfar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—54#24,562
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—19#24,013
PK PakistanElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election20181#619
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Where does the name Ghazanfar come from?
lion. Title of Khalifa Ali. Raja Ghaznafar Ali Khan (1895-1963): Pakistani political leader Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Ghazanfar?
A machine transcription gives /ɡæzənfɑɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
What does the name Ghazanfar mean?
Recorded meaning: lion. Title of Khalifa Ali.
Is Ghazanfar a male or female name?
Ghazanfar 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 Ghazanfar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Ghazanfar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghazanfar.
How common is the name Ghazanfar?
In the United States, the national register counted 116 people named Ghazanfar in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
How common is Ghazanfar compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Ghazanfar is the 848th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ghazanfar” — the 848th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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