Al-Khalifa
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/əlkəʎɪfə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Al-Khalifa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 18th most common surname.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 12K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 16K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, 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 Alkhalifa in BH Bahrain, QA Qatar, 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-Khalifa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #511 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Alkhalifa | 17 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Alkhalifa | 66 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Alkhalifa | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | #18 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Alkhalifa | 61 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 487K | — | Alkhalifa | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | #704 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Alkhalifa | 27 |
| QA Qatar | #159 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Alkhalifa | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | — | 9 |
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #40,404 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Al-Khalifa?
- A machine transcription gives /əlkəʎɪfə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Al-Khalifa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Al-Khalifa in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alkhalifa.
- How common is the name Al-Khalifa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 34 people named Al-Khalifa, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
- How common is Al-Khalifa compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Al-Khalifa is the 511th most common surname of 11,073 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Al-Khalifa?
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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-khalifaThe 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-Khalifa” — the 511th most common surname in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.