The Jaafar surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 453 people carried this name — #46,902 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 666,700 people counted. That is up 49% from 305 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 60 people named Jaafar.
Most of them — 45 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Haute-Corse.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 53 people named Jaafar live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Jaafar live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
185 people named Jaafar is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Jaafar,
with a public archive behind them.
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Aziz Jaafar 1935–2005 · actor
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Adam Jaafar 1964–2021 · murderer
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Mohammad Jaafar 1964–
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Jaafar Jaafar 1978– · journalist
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Maha Jaafar 1994– · human rights defender
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Jaafar.
- Iwanski 888 · U.S. census
- Izaguirre 6,358 · U.S. census
- Izard 626 · U.S. census
- Izquierdo 5,974 · U.S. census
- Izzi 958 · U.S. census
- Izzo 4,717 · U.S. census
- Jabbour 847 · U.S. census
- Jaber 2,601 · U.S. census
- Jabin 141 · U.S. census
- Jablonski 7,469 · U.S. census
- Jabri 251 · U.S. census
- Jaccard 151 · U.S. census
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