Arifin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/arˈifin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arifin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.6K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arifin 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 | #30 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Arifin | 225 |
| MY Malaysia | #124 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Arifin | 64 |
| IN India | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | 1 | Arifin | 24 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Arifin | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Arifin | 9 |
| US United States | — | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 161 | Arifin | 115 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Arifin | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 16 | 1 in 348K | 16 | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Arifin 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 Yoruba, the act of disregarding or showing contempt
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- As'ad Syamsul Arifinb. 1897IDIndonesian Islamic scholar, National Hero
- Irsan Arifinb. 1923IDbadminton player
- Bustanil Arifinb. 1925IDIndonesian politician
- Syamsul Arifinb. 1952IDIndonesian politician
- Siti Mirza Nuria Arifinb. 1953IDIndonesian singer, doctor, businesswomen, Miss Universe Indonesia 1977)
- Nurul Arifinb. 1966IDIndonesian actress
- Felicia Arifinb. 1967USbadminton player
- Leslie Arifinb. 1969USbadminton player
- Umilaela ArifinDEIndonesian herpetologist
- Aditya ArifinIDbadminton 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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 16 | #42,725 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Arifin?
- A machine transcription gives /arˈifin/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Arifin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Arifin in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arifin.
- How common is the name Arifin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136 people named Arifin in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Arifin compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Arifin is the 30th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arifin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arifinThe 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, “Arifin” — the 30th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.