Shērif
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shērif is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Sharif. Shērif is also written 샤리프 in Korean (Hangul).
- EGEgypt≈1 in 680(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.8K
- ALAlbania1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shērif itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 679 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shērif in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sherif in EG Egypt, US United States, NG Nigeria and 4 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)Variant of Sharif.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shērif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #107 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 679 | — | Sherif | 206 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Sherif | 52 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #817 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Sherif | 104 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #310 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Sherif | 117 |
| US United States | — | 2,836as Sharif | 1 in 117K | 5.3K | Sherif | 285 |
| KW Kuwait | #455 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Sherif | 51 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2.5K | Sherif | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,052 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.1K | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 Shērif mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Sharif. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Shērif a male or female name?
- Shērif is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Shērif?
- Mondonomo estimates about 172 thousand people named Shērif in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherif. After it come Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shērif?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,052 people named Shērif, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Shērif compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Shērif is the 107th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C4%93rifThe 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, “Shērif” — the 107th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.