Sharif

5,281 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sharif in the 2020 census, making it the 6,210th most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,281
Rank: 6,210th
How common: 1 in 56,600
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic شَرِيف.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sharif described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 36.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 30.5%
White, not Hispanic 24.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Sharif

Omar Sharif (1932–2015)Egyptian actor
Nawaz Sharif (born 1949)former prime minister of Pakistan
Shehbaz Sharif (born 1951)Prime Minister of Pakistan (2022–2023; 2024–present)
Omar Sharif, Jr. (born 1983)Egyptian-Canadian actor

People named Sharif with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sharif

Also a first name

Sharif has been given to 2,690 American babies as a first name since 1963, peaking in 1980. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.