Does Baba have another name? Is this the only name used in The Kite Runner? It means "father" in Arabic, according to one of my students.

I don't believe that Amir reveals his father's real name
during any part of The Kite Runner. Nor does Amir ever state his
own last name during the text. Amir simply refers to him as "Baba," which means "father"
in Arabic. It was the first word that Amir spoke as a baby. Baba is also referred to as
Toophan agha ("Mr. Hurricane"), a nickname given to him by his best
friend, Rahim Khan. However, we do get a clue to the family name in Chapter 20 when Amir
meets an old beggar on the streets of Kabul after his return to Taliban-held
Afghanistan. When Amir hears him say that he used to teach at the university, Amir tells
him that his mother used to teach there.

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"And what was her name?"
"Sofia
Akrami."

Therefore, assuming
that Amir's mother did not use her maiden name after she was married (unlikely in the
Arab world) while teaching at the university, we can guess that Amir's--and Baba's--last
name was Akrami.