Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jahongir 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 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jahongir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2017.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jahongir’s family of names
In Tajik usage, Jahongir is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ҷаҳонгир.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jahongir
- 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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