Negar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Negar is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Negar is also written Негар in Cyrillic.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 51K
- NONorway≈1 in 79K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Negar in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Negar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #904 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Negar | 5 |
| IN India | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 728K | 1 | Negar | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 115K | listed | Negar | 13 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Negar | 53 |
| US United States | — | 746 | 1 in 446K | 741 | Negar | 166 |
| SE Sweden | — | 201 | 1 in 51K | 201 | Negar | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 184 | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-eg-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Negar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, to deny
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Catalan, to deny (not allow)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, to drown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, weeping
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘tears’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)- Negar Mottahedehb. 1968IRIranian cultural critic and film theorist
- Negar Javaherianb. 1983IRIranian actress
- Negar Khanb. 1984IRNorwegian-Iranian Bollywood actress
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Negar mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Persian female given name نگار (negâr). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Negar?
- In the etymology graph, Nigar and Nigora are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Negar a male or female name?
- Negar is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Negar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Negar in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled negar. After it come India, Egypt, Iran and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Negar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 746 people named Negar in 2020, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
- How common is Negar compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Negar is the 904th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Negar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/negarThe 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, “Negar” — the 904th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.