Safar Family History
Safar Name Meaning
Arabic and Jewish (from North Africa): occupational name from Arabic ṣaffār ‘coppersmith worker in copper or brass’. Arabic: from the personal name Ṣafar from ṣafar the name of the second month of the Islamic calendar. This is sometimes chosen as a personal name for children born in this month. Bearers of this surname are both Muslims and Christians. Muslim (Iran): from the Arabic personal name Ṣafar (see 2 above) and probably also from the personal name Safar from Persian (ultimately Arabic) safar ‘journey travel’. Czech (Šafář); Slovak (Šafár); Croatian and Slovenian (Šafar); Hungarian (Sáfár): status name from local forms of German Schaffer ‘steward bailiff’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022