Given name & surname
Zafar
“the conquerer; a victorious man”
Zafar is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “the conquerer; a victorious man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “the conquerer; a victorious man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zafar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 146
- 146 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,661 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,661 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,226 as a first name in 2020; 2,610 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.
Zafar’s family of names
Zafar has a related form in Zafer. Zafar has a related form in Zafir. Zafar has a related form in Zaafar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zafar
- Zafar GulievOlympic wrestlerborn 1972
- Zafar Ali KhanPakistani writer (1873–1956)
- Zafar UsmanovSoviet and Tajik mathematician1937–2021
- Zafar BangashCanadian imamborn 1950
- Zafar IqbalBangladeshi actor1950–1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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