Tafsir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: commentary,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/t̪afs̪ir/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from তাফসির
Tafsir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 21Kfew records
- INIndia≈1 in 800K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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 grammatical, historical, allegorical and/or traditional interpretation of the Qur'an.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tafsir is read
(measured from records)Tafsir is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tafsir in Hindi.
- Bangla20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tafsir in Bangla.
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tafsir in French.
- Indonesian9.7%
commentary,
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.1%
A grammatical, historical, allegorical and/or traditional interpretation of the Qur'an.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tafsir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Tafsir | 37 |
| GN Guinea | #237 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Tafsir | 10 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 798K | 27 | Tafsir | 21 |
| SN Senegal | #306 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 3 | Tafsir | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Tafsir | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Tafsir | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)Tafsir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Uzbek, explanation, commentary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 27 | #66,182 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tafsir come from?
- A grammatical, historical, allegorical and/or traditional interpretation of the Qur'an. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tafsir?
- It depends on the language: in Bangla /t̪afs̪ir/; in Indonesian /tafsir/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tafsir a male or female name?
- Tafsir 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.
- What does the name Tafsir mean?
- In Indonesian, commentary,
- In which country does Tafsir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Tafsir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tafsir.
- How common is the name Tafsir?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8,100 people in Bangladesh have Tafsir as their first given name, about 1 in 21 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tafsir compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Tafsir is the 237th most common given name of 523 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/tafsirThe 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, “Tafsir” — the 237th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.