Sharief Surname
Approximately 50,820 people bear this surname
Sharief Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | 23,800 | 1:1,576 | 229 |
| India | 9,943 | 1:77,146 | 5,226 |
| Saudi Arabia | 8,666 | 1:3,561 | 476 |
| Libya | 3,406 | 1:1,833 | 558 |
| Pakistan | 1,565 | 1:114,149 | 3,444 |
| Philippines | 1,020 | 1:99,253 | 17,308 |
| Bangladesh | 451 | 1:353,341 | 9,758 |
| Sri Lanka | 292 | 1:71,262 | 7,441 |
| United States | 258 | 1:1,404,880 | 96,935 |
| Bahrain | 235 | 1:5,739 | 1,064 |
| United Arab Emirates | 225 | 1:40,721 | 4,209 |
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| Indonesia | 160 | 1:826,557 | 62,551 |
| Kuwait | 116 | 1:32,765 | 4,071 |
| England | 111 | 1:501,964 | 31,980 |
| South Africa | 81 | 1:668,861 | 48,796 |
| Qatar | 59 | 1:39,966 | 4,109 |
| Canada | 33 | 1:1,116,533 | 81,834 |
| Liberia | 25 | 1:176,341 | 12,123 |
| Oman | 22 | 1:167,635 | 3,489 |
| Australia | 20 | 1:1,349,785 | 70,688 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Netherlands | 15 | 1:1,125,812 | 68,885 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Jordan | 7 | 1:1,263,205 | 16,935 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Guyana | 4 | 1:190,555 | 9,777 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 1:1,409,271 | 19,641 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Syria | 3 | 1:6,433,674 | 16,197 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Maldives | 2 | 1:202,086 | 4,973 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
Sharief (6,932) may also be a first name.
Sharief Demographics
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Sharief Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sharief Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sharief (Hindi: शरीॅफ) is more frequently found in Sudan than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sharief? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sharief is the 11,053rd most commonly used last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 143,399 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 54 percent of Sharief live; 54 percent live in North Africa and 54 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 78,073rd most frequently occurring first name at a global level. It is borne by 6,932 people.
Sharief is most widely held in Sudan, where it is held by 23,800 people, or 1 in 1,576. Other than Sudan this last name occurs in 49 countries. It is also found in India, where 20 percent live and Saudi Arabia, where 17 percent live.
Sharief Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sharief last name are 7.88% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 61.11% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Sharief earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 56.21% more than the national average, earning R 371,208 per year; in United States they earn 11.22% less than the national average, earning $38,308 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.59% more than the national average, earning $50,471 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sharief Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sharief in the Hindi language | ||
| शरीॅफ | sariepha | 65.38 |
| शरीफ | saripha | 26.92 |
| शरीेफ | sariepha | 3.85 |
| शरीॆफ | sariepha | 3.85 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sharief
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