Jafar comes from the Arabic / Iranian tradition, meaning Small Stream.
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How popular is Jafar?
1994peak year
The name Jafar reached its peak in 1994, with 33 registrations (ranked #2368). It had only entered records 19 years earlier, in 1975. Since the peak, the name has eased to well outside the top 1,000 (around #5814) today, averaging about 16 new babies per year. Jafar's usage has held roughly steady recently. Across all years on record, approximately 659 American babies have carried this name.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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