Sharifi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɹifi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sharifi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 345(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 32K
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Sharifi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #25 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 345 | 1 | Sharifi | 33 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Sharifi | 42 |
| US United States | — | 1,207 | 1 in 276K | 1.8K | Sharifi | 243 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Sharifi | 76 |
| SE Sweden | — | 812 | 1 in 13K | 812 | Sharifi | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 486 | 1 in 11K | 486 | — | 7 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sharifi | 20 |
| FI Finland | — | 274 | 1 in 20K | 274 | Sharifi | 5 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Sharifi 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 Hausa, Someone of noble descent, who can theoretically trace their ancestry back to Muhammad.
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)
- Abu al-Qassim Zahabi Shirazib. 1788IRnot in their usual nameIranian sufi and poet
- Nasser Sharifyb. 1925IRnot in their usual nameIranian librarian
- Hassan Sharifib. 1931IRIranian actor and cinematographer
- Soody Sharifib. 1955IRphotographer
- Amir-Hossein Sharifib. 1957IRIranian actor and film producer
- Mohammad Sharifi moghadamb. 1961IRIranian Nurse
- Hooman Sharifib. 1973NONorwegian choreographer
- Minoo Sharifib. 1987IRIranian actress (born 1987)
- Maral Noshad Sharifib. 1989NLjournalist from the Netherlands
- Morteza Sharifib. 1999IRIranian volleyball 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 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sharifi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹifi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sharifi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Sharifi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharifi.
- How common is the name Sharifi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207 people named Sharifi in 2010, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
- How common is Sharifi compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Sharifi is the 25th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sharifi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharifiThe 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, “Sharifi” — the 25th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.