Safar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The second month of the Islamic calendar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səfɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Safar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 7.8K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iraq (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The second month of the Islamic calendar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Safar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQ Iraq | #770 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Safar | 24 |
| SY Syria | #946 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Safar | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,379 | 1 in 7.8K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Safar | 62 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Safar | 26 |
| HR Croatia | — | 526 | 1 in 8K | 526 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #516 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Safar | 54 |
| BH Bahrain | #391 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Safar | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Safar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Islamic month
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Indonesian, Safar (the second month of the Islamic calendar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite nominative plural of safi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, verbal noun of siefer:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, to pull out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Safarb. 1892ATAustria physician (1892-1963)
- Fuad Safarb. 1911IQIraqi archaeologist
- Peter Safarb. 1924ATAustrian physician (1924-2003)
- Francisco Jattinb. 1938COnot in their usual nameColombian politician and diplomat
- Adel Safarb. 1953SY64th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic
- Junia Safarb. 1969BNbadminton player
- Helene Benichou-SafarFRFrench historian, archaeologist, epigraphist and Semiticist.
- Joseph SafarRoman Catholic bishop
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Safar mean, and where does it come from?
- The second month of the Islamic calendar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Safar?
- A machine transcription gives /səfɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Safar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Safar in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled safar.
- Where is Safar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Safar is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though Iraq holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Safar?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,379 people named Safar, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Safar compared with other names?
- In Iraq, Safar is the 770th most common surname of 30,136 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Safar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/safarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Safar” — the 770th most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.