Japhar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Japhar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 675as Zafar(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 1.5Kas Zafar
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.5Kas Zafar
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Japhar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Zafar, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est., as Zafar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zafar in PK Pakistan, US United States, AE United Arab Emirates, Зафар in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan, Jafar in NG Nigeria and Jafor in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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)
Japhar 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 | #19 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Zafar | 144 |
| BD Bangladesh | #254 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Jafor | 61 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Jafar | 47 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #64 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Зафар | 39 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #91 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | listed | Зафар | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #173 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Zafar | 81 |
| US United States | — | 1,226as Zafar | 1 in 271K | 2.6K | Zafar | 278 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Japhar a male or female name?
- Japhar 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 Japhar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 thousand people named Zafar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Japhar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,226 people named Zafar in 2020, about 1 in 271 thousand residents.
- How common is Japhar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Japhar is the 19th most common given name of 77,659 given names 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/japharThe 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, “Japhar” — the 19th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.