Zafir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zaːfiɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Zafir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 76K
- SISlovenia1 in 210K
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 Zafir 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Jafir, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jafir in IN India, US United States, OM Oman.
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)Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zafir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 40 | Jafir | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 228K | listed | Zafir | 22 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Zafir | 14 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 273 | Jafir | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Zafir | 36 |
| OM Oman | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Jafir | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 50 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 10 | 1 in 210K | 10 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SURS — resident population given names. 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)Zafir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, victorious, winner
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
One who helps to
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, victorious, triumphant, winner, conqueror. See Ghalib WJte; Muzaffar ,a2&.; Muntasir ,.t:.. Al-Zafir: Fatimid Khalifa (1149-54)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Romanian, obsolete form of safir
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zafir Premčevićb. 1872MKSerbian Chetnik commander
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)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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 273 | #76,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 207 | #89,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 24 | #9,968 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #95,871 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- How do you pronounce Zafir?
- In Turkish /zaːfiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zafir a male or female name?
- Zafir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Zafir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen.
- In which country does Zafir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Jafir in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zafir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zafir is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zafir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 239 people named Zafir in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zafirThe 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, “Zafir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.