Jafar is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “A small river, a stream.” In 2024 it was given to 22 boys in the United States.
Jafar belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “A small river, a stream” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Jafar first appears in Social Security records in 1975. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2368 in 1994, and in 2024 22 babies received the name — 659 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Jafar means “A small river, a stream” in its Arabic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Jafar is a boy name. In 2024, 22 babies received the name in the US.
Jafar comes from the Muslim & Arabic tradition.
Jafar first appears in US records in 1975. Its best-ever ranking was #2368 in 1994, and 22 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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