Arif
About 714 American babies have been named Arif since 1968, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 690 Arifs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Arif
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 714
- Estimated living today
- 690
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 4,493rd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1968
How old the living Arifs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 714 babies given the name since 1968, about 690 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Arifs
- Arif Alvi (born 1949)13th President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024
- Arif Erdem (born 1972)Turkish association football player
- Arif Malikov (1933–2019)Soviet and Azerbaijani composer
- Arif Mardin (1932–2006)Turkish-American record producer
- Arif Babayev (1938–2025)Azerbaijani singer
- Arif Aiman Hanapi (born 2002)Malaysian footballer
- Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951)Former governor of Bihar
- Arif Dirlik (1940–2017)Turkish-American historian
People named Arif with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arif is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arif is most concentrated in New York (11.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Arif peaked:
Arif elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Arif | 577 | 748th |
| France boys | Arif | 405 | 1,770th |
| Belgium boys | Arif | 36 | 768th |
| Scotland boys | Arif | 16 | 250th |
| Ireland boys | Arif | 3 | 500th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Arif: rank by region
In 2000, Arif was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Arif | 634 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Arif by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Arif among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Arif | 50 | 79 |
| Finland girls | Arif | — | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Arif lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 189 men called Arif were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Arif | 66 | 0.023 | 2,123 |
| Tarragona | Arif | 6 | 0.014 | 3,191 |
| Madrid | Arif | 34 | 0.010 | 4,158 |
| Valencia/València | Arif | 11 | 0.008 | 4,792 |
Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Arif against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.