Arifah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: knowledgeable; learned
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/arˈifah/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arifah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 82K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 208K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
knowledgeable; learned.
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arifah 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 | #924 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Arifah | 101 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Arifah | 41 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Arifah | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Arifah | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 53M | — | Arifah | 73 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | 1 | Arifah | 14 |
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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
- Frisca Adelia Arifahb. 2009IDbadminton player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Arifah mean, and where does it come from?
- knowledgeable; learned. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Arifah?
- A machine transcription gives /arˈifah/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Arifah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Arifah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arifah.
- How common is the name Arifah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11,000 people in Indonesia have Arifah as their first surname, about 1 in 25 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Arifah compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Arifah is the 924th most common surname of 451,395 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/arifahThe 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, “Arifah” — the 924th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.