Zafir

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zafir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 75K
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 130K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 named Jafir, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JafirLatin(measured from records)
জাফিরBengali(measured from records)

Locally spelled Jafir in US United States, SY Syria, 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)

recorded in Turkish

Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen.

Sources 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.

Where Zafir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈2,300 est.≈1 in 100KlistedZafir22
BD Bangladesh≈1,200 est.≈1 in 130K—Zafir14
US United States2391 in 1.4M273Jafir29
ID Indonesia≈180 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Zafir36
SY Syria≈130 est.≈1 in 145K—Jafir4
OM Oman≈45 est.≈1 in 103K—Jafir1
XK Kosovo≈37 est.≈1 in 52K50—1
GY Guyana101 in 75K10——

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; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zafir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ẓāfir, Ẓafīr, Zâfir

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zafïr, Ẓāfir

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ẓāfir, Zafír, Ẓafīr

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Zâfîr

  • Hebrew given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Israel, United States, Hungary

    Also written זפיר, Ẓāfir, Zephyr

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Зафир

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Zafir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020273#76,032
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010207#89,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000138#116,835
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

What does the name Zafir mean?
Recorded meaning: Zafer kazanan, üstün gelen.
Is Zafir a male or female name?
Zafir 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 Zafir have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Jafir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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