Šharif
surname · Latin script
Šharif is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,879 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf). Doublet of shereef and Sharif.
- NONorway1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- DKDenmark1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
3,879 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sharif in US United States, IN India.
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)From Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf). Doublet of shereef and Sharif.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šharif is found
(measured from records)Šharif 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.
3,879 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Šharif mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic شَرِيف (šarīf). Doublet of shereef and Sharif. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of Islamic Names and 5 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šharif?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Šharif, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharif. After it come India, Norway, Sweden and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šharif most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šharif is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šharif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,879 people named Šharif in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šharif?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1harifThe 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, “Šharif” — ranked 5852nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.