Aarif
surname · Latin script
Meaning: learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɛɹɪf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aarif is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 479as Arif(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.7Kas Arif
- USUnited States1 in 139Kas Arif
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 Aarif 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Arif, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Arif
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arif in PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh, US United States 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(measured from records)
learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain. See Areef 2, ,c, learned
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aarif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #31 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | listed | Arif | 127 |
| PK Pakistan | #163 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Arif | 131 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 781 | — | Arif | 24 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Arif | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 654 | 441 | — | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,389as Arif | 1 in 139K | 2.6K | Arif | 205 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 826 | 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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aarif is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gag, smart, wise, knowledgeable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Where does the name Aarif come from?
- learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain. See Areef 2, ,c, learned Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Aarif?
- A machine transcription gives /əɛɹɪf/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Aarif mean?
- Recorded meaning: learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain.
- In which country does Aarif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 339 thousand people named Arif in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aarif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,389 people named Arif in 2020, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
- How common is Aarif compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Aarif is the 31st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aarifThe 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, “Aarif” — the 31st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.