Jafari
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ja-FAR-ee
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Jafari is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “small stream”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Jafari mean?
Arabic: Swahili and Persian form of Arabic Ja'far
“small stream”
Form of Ja'far, an Arabic name meaning small stream; Ja'far ibn Abi Talib was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Jafari a girl's or a boy's name?
Jafari is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jafari in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Jafari, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the boys named Jafari in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jafari in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,497 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,383 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,523 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,808 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,769 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,834 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,099 |
Names like Jafari
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad Abdullah Mustafa Hamza Zahir Zayd Ahmad Amir Ibrahim Samir Musa Mouhamed
Names related to Jafari
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jafari: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jafari, updated 20 October 2026.