Sherifa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɹɪfə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sherifa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 12K
- GYGuyana1 in 23K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherifa 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 | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Sherifa | 51 |
| GH Ghana | #667 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Sherifa | 12 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Sherifa | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sherifa | 28 |
| US United States | — | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Sherifa | 97 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Sherifa | 14 |
| GY Guyana | — | 33 | 1 in 23K | 33 | Sherifa | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Fatima Sherifa Chirineb. 1923EG(1923-1990)
- Sharifah Mahirb. 1932EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress (1932–2024)
- Sherifa Fathyb. 1933EGEgyptian poet
- Sherifa Zuhurb. 1953USAmerican academic
- Sherifa Gunub. 1975GHGhanaian musician
- Sherifa Jamesonb. 1996SRbadminton player
- Sherifa A HamedEGresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #44,846 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 33 | #561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #44,846 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #956 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sherifa?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹɪfə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Sherifa a male or female name?
- Sherifa is a female 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 Sherifa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Sherifa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherifa.
- How common is the name Sherifa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 153 people named Sherifa in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Sherifa compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Sherifa is the 667th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sherifa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherifaThe 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, “Sherifa” — the 667th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.