Name meaning & stats
Sharif
Sharif. 2,690 US babies since 1940, peak 1980.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1980
2,690 US babies were named Sharif between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Sharif (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 58% of the family
- Sharif 58%
- Shareef 26%
- Shariff 12%
- Sharief 4%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1980)