Given name & surname
Sherief
“one who is honored”
Sherief is a variant of Sharif. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sherief is a variant of Sharif. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sherief is a variant of Sharif. An origin associated with Sharif is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sherief through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 6 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 5 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include a sample rank of No. 78,254 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sherief’s family of names
Sherief has a related form in Sharif.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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