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Sherif

#8,805 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Sharif

Sherif has been given to 428 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #8,805 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Sherif, 2025

1 in 368,000

Sherif over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherif: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sharif

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherif means

Sherif is a alternate transcription of Sharif.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sherif → Sharif. The family’s meaning is “noble, eminent”, recorded in the naming reference for Sharif.

Origin, language, and formation

Sherif is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sharif.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 428 boys were recorded with the name Sherif between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,433 in 1990.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,733 in 2015 to #8,805 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sherif?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,805
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherif sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherif was born before 1994 — so the typical Sherif is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
428
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Sherif rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+924
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,928
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1990 (18)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,433
1990

Spellings of Sherif

Sherif is not the most common spelling — Sherwin is, with 41.9% against Sherif's 4.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sherif is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 475,851 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sherif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sherif around the world

Where Sherif ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1965–2025
    #5,214
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–1999
    #1,766
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sherif by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,433
1990
Peak year
1990
18 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
428
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Sherif

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sherif

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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