Al-Refai
surname · Latin script
Al-Refai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 2.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.8Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 13K
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.
- Jordan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, 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 Alrefai in SY Syria, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Al-Refai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO Jordan | #769 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Alrefai | 32 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Alrefai | 24 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Alrefai | 49 |
| KW Kuwait | #499 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Alrefai | 48 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Alrefai | 18 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Alrefai | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 116 | 1 in 88K | 116 | Alrefai | 10 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Oula A. Alrifaib. 1986SYnot in their usual nameSyrian activist
- Mouatasem Alrifaib. 1998SYnot in their usual nameMouatasem Alrifai is an award-winning Syrian politician, author, human rights activist and Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor based in Germany.
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Al-Refai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Al-Refai in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alrefai.
- How common is the name Al-Refai?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 116 people named Al-Refai, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Al-Refai compared with other names?
- In Jordan, Al-Refai is the 769th most common surname of 26,255 surnames 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/al-refaiThe 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, “Al-Refai” — the 769th most common surname in Jordan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.