Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jahangir isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jahangir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,782 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,782 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 610 as a first name in 2020; 568 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.
Jahangir’s family of names
Jahangir has a related form in Jehangir.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jahangir
- Jakhongir UrozovUzbekistani association football playerborn 2004
- Jahangir ButtPakistani field hockey player1943–2021
- Jahangir RazmiPulitzer Prize-winning Iranian photographerborn 1947
- Cihangir GhaffariIranian actorborn 1940
- Jahangir AlmasiIranian actorborn 1955
- Jahangir ForouharIranian actor1916–1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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