Jafarov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʒafaɾˈov/(machine-generated) Azerbaijani · model-generated
Jafarov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 570(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 61K
- PLPoland1 in 209K
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.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, 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.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jafarov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #225 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 573 | — | Jafarov | 63 |
| PL Poland | — | 183 | 1 in 209K | 183 | Jafarov | 7 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 921K | — | Jafarov | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Jafarov | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Jafarov | 34 |
| GE Georgia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Jafarov | 13 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 572K | — | Jafarov | 6 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)- Mammad Yusif Jafarovb. 1885AZAzerbaijani politician (1885–1938)
- Saftar Jafarovb. 1900AZAzerbaijani politician
- Shamil Mamedovich Dzhafarovb. 1927AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani entomologist (1927–1999)
- Mammadtaghi Jafarovb. 1936AZAzerbaijani scientist
- Vahid Azizb. 1945AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani poet
- Yusif Jafarovb. 1952AZAzerbaijani historian
- Magomed Dzhafarovb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian judoka
- Hasrat Jafarovb. 2002AZAzerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler
- Jamal Jafarovb. 2002AZAzerbaijani footballer
- Rza Jafarovb. 2003AZAzerbaijani footballer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 183 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 183 | #17,584 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jafarov?
- In the etymology graph, Cəfərov is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jafarov?
- In Azerbaijani /ʒafaɾˈov/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Jafarov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Jafarov in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jafarov.
- How common is the name Jafarov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 183 people named Jafarov in 2026, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Jafarov compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Jafarov is the 225th most common surname of 41,501 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jafarovThe 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, “Jafarov” — the 225th most common surname in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.