Given name & surname · also Arabic
Jabbar
“one who consoles others”
Jabbar is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who consoles others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who consoles others.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
From Arabic جَبَّار (jabbār, “mighty, powerful”); its root is Arabic ج ب ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jabbar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 752
- 752 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 76 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,199 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,199 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 76 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 645 as a first name in 2020; 1,402 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jabbar
- Jabbar GaryaghdiogluAzerbaijani singer (1861–1944)
- Jabbar BaghtchebanIranian educator and inventor, founder of the first Iranian kindergarten and school for the deaf.1886–1966
- Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbarsuspect in the 2025 New Orleans car attack1982–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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