Afif
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: chaste, virtuous, honest, righteous, upright, decent. Fourteenth-century Indian historian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈafif/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Afif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
chaste, virtuous, honest, righteous, upright, decent. Fourteenth-century Indian historian
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Afif is read(measured from records)
Afif is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian52%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afif in Indonesian.
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afif in English.
- Arabic9.0%
chaste, virtuous, honest, righteous, upright, decent. Fourteenth-century Indian historian
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Turkish7.1%
Namuslu, iffetli, temiz, dürüst.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #579 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Afif | 162 |
| MY Malaysia | #372 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Afif | 61 |
| TN Tunisia | #459 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Afif | 33 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Afif | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 151K | listed | Afif | 20 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Afif | 36 |
| US United States | — | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 281 | Afif | 118 |
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. 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)
Afif is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
casto, modesto
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
pure; decent; virtuous,
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Romanian, penniless
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, AFÍF adj. invar. (Reg.) Care nu are nici un ban, lefter.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Afif Erzenb. 1913TRTurkish archaeologist (1913–2000)
- Afif Yesarib. 1922TRTurkish writer (1922–1989)
- Afif Bahnassib. 1928SYSyrian art historian
- Afif Abd al-Rahmanb. 1937JOPalestinian-Jordanian linguist and academic (1937-2019)
- Afif Hendaouib. 1948TNTunisian economist, academic and diplomat
- Afif Safiehb. 1950PSPalestinian diplomat
- Afif Demirkıranb. 1952TRTurkish statesperson (born 1952)
- Afif Sıddıkib. 1973TRTurkish researcher
- Afef Abedb. 1974ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli Druze 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 166 | #107,134 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Afif mean, and where does it come from?
- chaste, virtuous, honest, righteous, upright, decent. Fourteenth-century Indian historian Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Afif?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈafif/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Afif a male or female name?
- Afif 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.
- In which country does Afif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Afif in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afif.
- How common is the name Afif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Afif in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Afif compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Afif is the 579th most common given name of 270,909 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/afifThe 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, “Afif” — the 579th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.