Asif Forename
1,131st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 824,977 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Pakistan
Highest density in:
Pakistan
Asif Forename User-submission:
The name Asif has Arabic origins and is commonly used in Islamic cultures, meaning 'gatherer' or 'one who brings together'. It comes from the Arabic root ع-ص-ف ('-ṣ-f), which means 'gathering' or 'harvest'. Variants of the name include alternate spellings such as Aseef or Asifa, influenced by regional pronunciation differences.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 95% | 416,306 | 1:467 | 53 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 197,039 | 1:809 | 82 |
| India | 100% | 138,788 | 1:8,753 | 1,146 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 19,545 | 1:493 | 104 |
| Afghanistan | 96% | 12,370 | 1:2,637 | 445 |
| England | 100% | 7,014 | 1:7,927 | 694 |
| Mozambique | - | 4,320 | 1:6,306 | 1,134 |
| United States | 100% | 4,145 | 1:87,464 | 4,069 |
| Oman | 100% | 2,841 | 1:1,446 | 229 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,504 | 1:8,306 | 1,305 |
| Sudan | - | 2,181 | 1:17,335 | 1,813 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,914 | 1:17,311 | 1,650 |
| Syria | - | 1,762 | 1:10,957 | 860 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,178 | 1:32,281 | 999 |
| Russia | 100% | 1,146 | 1:125,858 | 2,223 |
| Bahrain | - | 1,036 | 1:1,302 | 212 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 874 | 1:35,255 | 4,434 |
| Kuwait | - | 760 | 1:4,981 | 652 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 729 | 1:353,860 | 29,436 |
| South Africa | 100% | 706 | 1:77,242 | 6,857 |
| Iraq | 100% | 584 | 1:59,962 | 1,907 |
| Turkey | 100% | 492 | 1:158,134 | 3,963 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 463 | 1:7,612 | 1,063 |
| Malawi | 100% | 381 | 1:44,914 | 3,117 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 349 | 1:88,213 | 2,662 |
| Scotland | 100% | 341 | 1:15,690 | 871 |
| Jordan | 100% | 307 | 1:28,752 | 1,237 |
| Spain | 100% | 286 | 1:162,692 | 3,677 |
| Australia | - | 263 | 1:51,930 | 2,422 |
| Fiji | - | 259 | 1:3,445 | 924 |
| Thailand | 100% | 243 | 1:288,337 | 16,537 |
| Guyana | 100% | 241 | 1:3,167 | 623 |
| Egypt | 100% | 239 | 1:384,523 | 11,247 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 206 | 1:86,150 | 2,787 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 192 | 1:158,593 | 9,786 |
| Greece | 100% | 190 | 1:57,550 | 1,916 |
| Germany | 100% | 184 | 1:525,423 | 5,432 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 172 | 1:32,718 | 1,950 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 160 | 1:44,700 | 4,079 |
| Sweden | 100% | 156 | 1:63,192 | 3,092 |
| Morocco | - | 136 | 1:252,564 | 6,008 |
| Palestine | 100% | 122 | 1:37,296 | 1,353 |
| Iran | 100% | 114 | 1:688,569 | 7,050 |
| Maldives | 99% | 107 | 1:4,055 | 225 |
| France | 100% | 95 | 1:699,688 | 6,456 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 95 | 1:14,331 | 1,910 |
| Yemen | - | 94 | 1:279,753 | 1,930 |
| New Zealand | - | 87 | 1:52,138 | 2,788 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 81 | 1:208,668 | 7,728 |
| Norway | 100% | 79 | 1:64,966 | 2,450 |
| Denmark | - | 75 | 1:75,327 | 2,446 |
| Wales | 100% | 72 | 1:42,977 | 1,614 |
| Ireland | 100% | 62 | 1:74,895 | 2,089 |
| Japan | - | 59 | 1:2,169,255 | 20,269 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 58 | 1:3,061,454 | 52,972 |
| Belgium | 100% | 50 | 1:229,801 | 5,278 |
| China | - | 46 | 1:29,696,865 | 61,011 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 42 | 1:1,256,865 | 20,882 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 34 | 1:38,170 | 2,603 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 33 | 1:165,845 | 1,456 |
| Georgia | 100% | 31 | 1:120,596 | 4,093 |
| Hong Kong | - | 30 | 1:258,424 | 3,493 |
| Italy | 100% | 30 | 1:2,035,403 | 14,030 |
| Croatia | 100% | 28 | 1:150,610 | 3,044 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Singapore | 100% | 27 | 1:232,854 | 8,839 |
| Botswana | - | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 22 | 1:373,341 | 6,715 |
| Ecuador | - | 20 | 1:886,346 | 7,318 |
| Austria | 100% | 18 | 1:473,011 | 4,571 |
| South Korea | - | 17 | 1:326,142 | 10,022 |
| Brazil | 100% | 16 | 1:13,389,760 | 149,801 |
| Finland | 67% | 16 | 1:342,699 | 4,640 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 16 | 1:373,330 | 13,392 |
| Belarus | 100% | 15 | 1:632,159 | 3,807 |
| Qatar | 100% | 15 | 1:157,974 | 16,771 |
| Philippines | 100% | 12 | 1:8,834,123 | 129,598 |
| Uganda | 100% | 12 | 1:3,413,077 | 36,062 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 11 | 1:223,523 | 3,995 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 11 | 1:1,402,165 | 43,227 |
| Zambia | - | 10 | 1:1,585,479 | 18,518 |
| Kenya | 100% | 8 | 1:5,788,389 | 30,473 |
| Panama | 100% | 8 | 1:488,320 | 13,543 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 8 | 1:2,971,210 | 60,968 |
| Estonia | 100% | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 6 | 1:18,597 | 2,290 |
| Grenada | 100% | 5 | 1:21,625 | 2,009 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Chile | 100% | 4 | 1:4,401,802 | 21,957 |
| Czechia | 100% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4 | 1:2,607,818 | 19,206 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Israel | 100% | 4 | 1:2,100,730 | 20,870 |
| Mexico | - | 4 | 1:31,036,107 | 61,748 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Argentina | 67% | 3 | 1:14,257,748 | 23,489 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 3 | 1:106,044 | 2,485 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 2 | 1:921,573 | 3,058 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Hungary | - | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Peru | - | 2 | 1:15,895,727 | 74,652 |
| Saint Lucia | 50% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Serbia | 100% | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Venezuela | - | 2 | 1:15,100,946 | 147,145 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Abkhazia | - | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Ašif (1) & Âsîf (1) are calculated separately.
Asif (628,037) may also be a surname.
Asif Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The name Asif has Arabic origins and is commonly used in Islamic cultures, meaning 'gatherer' or 'one who brings together'. It comes from the Arabic root ع-ص-ف ('-ṣ-f), which means 'gathering' or 'harvest'. Variants of the name include alternate spellings such as Aseef or Asifa, influenced by regional pronunciation differences.
- syedhumaid109The name Asif means 'gatherer' or 'one who brings together' in Arabic. It comes from the Arabic root ع-ص-ف ('-ṣ-f), which means 'gathering' or 'harvest'. Variants of the name include alternate spellings such as Aseef or Asifa, influenced by regional pronunciation differences.
- syedhumaid109Asif Forename Popularity
Asif Demographics
Asif Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 91 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Asif Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Asif in the Russian language | ||
| Асиф | asif | - |
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