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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Sanskrit : Little stream

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Jaffer

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ja‛far ‘spring’, ‘source’, ‘rivulet’. The warrior Ja‛far ibn-Abī-̣Tālib died heroically at the Battle of Mota (629), holding aloft the Muslim banner proclaiming ‘Paradise!’

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