Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Shariff is a form of Sharif. Sharif comes from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shariff through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 572
- 572 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 506 as a first name in 2020; 1,379 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shariff’s family of names
In English usage, Shariff as a surname has a related form in Sharif.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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