Sherif
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sherif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Arabic, recorded as Sharif; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 704(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.1K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sherif itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 704 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, 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(measured from records)
Sharif; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sherif is read(measured from records)
Sherif is one spelling over 2 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.
- Arabic67%
Sharif; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English17%
Alternative form of shereef.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sherif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #107 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 704 | — | Sherif | 206 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Sherif | 52 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #817 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Sherif | 104 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #310 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Sherif | 117 |
| US United States | — | 2,836as Sharif | 1 in 117K | 5.3K | Sherif | 285 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2.5K | Sherif | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,052 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.1K | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #455 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Sherif | 51 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
- Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adenb. 1946SOnot in their usual nameSpeaker of Parliament and Finance Minister
- Sherif Ismailb. 1955EGEgyptian politician (1955–2023)
- Sherif Sonbolb. 1956EGEgyptian photographer (1956–2023)
- Sherif Mounirb. 1959EGEgyptian actor
- Sherif Arafab. 1960EGEgyptian director, writer and producer
- Sherif Mohie El Dinb. 1964EGEgyptian conductor and composer
- Sherif Abdel Azimb. 1964EGEgyptian university teacher and writer
- Sherif Ramzyb. 1982EGEgyptian actor
- Sherif Ashrafb. 1987EGEgyptian association football player
- Tom Dele-Bashirub. 1999GBnot in their usual nameNigerian association football player (born 1999)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 977 | #26,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 585 | #37,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 342 | #55,971 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sherif mean, and where does it come from?
- Sharif; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Sherif?
- In the etymology graph, Şerif is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Sherif a male or female name?
- Sherif 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 Sherif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 148 thousand people named Sherif in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherif.
- How common is the name Sherif?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,052 people named Sherif, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Sherif compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Sherif is the 107th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sherif?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherifThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sherif” — the 107th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.