Given name
Chérif
Chérif is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
Chérif’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chérif
- Chérif Touré MamamTogolese footballerborn 1978
- Cherif Mohamed Aly AidaraSenegalese-Mauritanian Shia religious leaderborn 1959
- Chérif SouleymaneGuinean footballerborn 1944
- Cherif YounousseQatar beach volleyball playerborn 1995
- Chérif OudjaniAlgerian and French footballerborn 1964
- Cherif Al-Hassane Aidaramauritanian-Senegalese Sufi religious leader1917–2011
- Chérif FetouiMoroccan football playerborn 1945
- Chérif AbdeslamAlgerian footballerborn 1978
- Mahamat Zene CherifChadian diplomatborn 1964
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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