Sherifi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɹifʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sherifi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 5.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 8.8K
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 Sherifi 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherifi 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 | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sherifi | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | #392 | 1,488as Шерифи | 1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | Sherifi | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 955 | 1 in 8.8K | 955 | Sherifi | 19 |
| XK Kosovo | #108 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Sherifi | 5 |
| AL Albania | #307 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Sherifi | 30 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Skënder Sherifib. 1954BEBelgian poet
- Agim Sherifib. 1994ALassociation football 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 18 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 955 | #1,248 |
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 Sherifi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹifʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sherifi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Sherifi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherifi.
- How common is the name Sherifi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 955 people named Sherifi in 2024, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sherifi compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Sherifi is the 108th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sherifi?
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/sherifiThe 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, “Sherifi” — the 108th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.