Boy name origins & meanings
- Sanskrit : Little stream
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!’