The baby name Abdul Ghafour is a Male name and is pronounced Arabic: ʿAbd al‑Ghaffūr (IPA: ʕabd alˈɣaffuːr); common English respelling: ab-DUL gha-FOOR.
Abdul Ghafour is Arabic in Origin.
The baby name Abdul Ghafour is a Male name and is pronounced Arabic: ʿAbd al‑Ghaffūr (IPA: ʕabd alˈɣaffuːr); common English respelling: ab-DUL gha-FOOR.
Abdul Ghafour is Arabic in Origin.
Abdul Ghafour is an Arabic theophoric compound, from ʿAbd al‑Ghafūr (عبد الغفور), meaning “servant of the All‑Forgiving,” with al‑Ghafūr one of the 99 Names of God in Islam. Pronounced roughly ab-DOOL gha-FOOR, it joins ʿabd “servant” with the divine epithet; strictly, the article al- is retained because ghayn is not a sun letter.
Documented from the early Islamic centuries, the name has been borne by jurists, poets, and officials across the Arab world and the wider Muslim sphere, and remains common in South Asia, North and East Africa, and Southeast Asia. Notable variants include Abdul Ghafoor, Abdur Ghafoor, Abdul Ghaffor/Gaffoor, Abd al-Ghafur, Abdelghafour/Abdel Ghafour (Maghrebi French), Abdoul Gafour (West Africa), and Turkish Abdülgaffur. In many communities Ghafoor also functions as a hereditary surname.
Abdul Ghafour is extremely rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 9 recorded uses, across 8 countries.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF | Boys | 0 | #274 | 1 | 3,535 |
| DK | Boys | 0 | #332 | 1 | 7,401 |
| LB | 0 | #690 | 1 | 13,263 | |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #743 | 1 | 18,093 |
| SY | 0 | #767 | 1 | 11,684 | |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #918 | 1 | 17,948 |
| DZ | 0 | #1,234 | 1 | 20,130 | |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,690 | 2 | 28,008 |
Abdul Ghafour is popular in 8 countries — most recent births per country:
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