Sharif

Where Sharif comes from

Sharif hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,048 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Sharif Atkins born
    American actor
  3. 1977
    Peak, #954
    80 babies named Sharif — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1988
    Sharif Sharifov born
    Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,545.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sharif Sharifov · Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, born 1988
  • Sharif Atkins · American actor, born 1975
  • Sharif Mukhammad · Russian footballer, born 1990
  • Sharif Nazarov · Tajikistani football manager, 1946–2025
  • Sharif Waked · Palestinian artist, born 1964

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.