Ärïf
surname · Latin script
Ärïf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif), from Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif, “knowing”), active participle of عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, “to know”).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 520(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 690few records
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 780
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 515 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Arif in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Arabicعَارِفʕārif(measured from records)
- Arabicعَارِفʕārif“knowing”(measured from records)
From Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif), from Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif, “knowing”), active participle of عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, “to know”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ärïf counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #845 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 1.8K | Arif | 178 |
| BD Bangladesh | #31 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 779 | listed | Arif | 127 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 690 | — | Arif | 24 |
| PK Pakistan | #163 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Arif | 131 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Arif | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | 441 | — | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,389 | 1 in 139K | 2.6K | Arif | 205 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 981 | 2.7K | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ärïf mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif), from Arabic عَارِف (ʕārif, “knowing”), active participle of عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, “to know”). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Ärïf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 296 thousand people named Ärïf in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arif.
- How common is the name Ärïf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,389 people named Ärïf in 2020, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
- How common is Ärïf compared with other names?
- In India, Ärïf is the 845th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4r%C3%AFfThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ärïf” — the 845th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.