Chérifa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chérifa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 25K
- GAGabon≈1 in 34K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cherifa in FR France, CM Cameroon, TN Tunisia and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chérifa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Chérifa | 10 |
| BF Burkina Faso | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Cherifa | 3 |
| FR France | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1.4K | Cherifa | 182 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cherifa | 10 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Cherifa | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Cherifa | 3 |
| ES Spain | 138 | 1 in 362K | 138 | Chérifa | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cherifa Messadib. 1908TNTunisian trade unionist and activist
- Cherifa Kersitb. 1967MAMoroccan singer
- Chérifa Tlemsanib. 1974FRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Chérifa a male or female name?
- Chérifa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chérifa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Chérifa in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chérifa.
- How common is the name Chérifa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 138 people named Chérifa, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chérifa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A9rifaThe 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, “Chérifa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.