Given name & surname
Negar
“sweetheart; painting”
Negar is a feminine given name from Iranian Persian, meaning “sweetheart; painting.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Iranian Persian نگار (negâr, “sweetheart; painting”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Negar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53
- 0 boys · 53 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 8 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 girls is 5 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 746 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Negar’s family of names
In English usage, Negar has a related form in Negār.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Negar
- Negar JavaherianIranian actressborn 1983
- Negar KhanNorwegian-Iranian Bollywood actressborn 1984
- Négar DjavadiFrench-Iranian writerborn 1969
- Negar MoghaddamIranian actressborn 1999
- Negar MortazaviIranian-American journalistborn 1981
- Negar ForoozandehIranian actressborn 1978
- Negar MottahedehIranian cultural critic and film theoristborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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