Given name & surname · also Turkish
Cafer
Cafer is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cafer comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish جعفر (Ca'fer), from Arabic جَعْفَر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cafer’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cafer
- Cafer Seydamet QırımerCrimean Tatar politician and writer1889–1960
- Cafer ÇağatayTurkish association football player (1899–1991)
- Cafer Tayyar EğilmezTurkish general and statesperson (1878–1958)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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