Sherife Surname
Approximately 1,490 people bear this surname
Sherife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,449 | 1:67,320 | 6,648 |
| Liberia | 17 | 1:259,326 | 15,766 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Sherife (14,068) may also be a first name.
Sherife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sherife Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sherife is carried by more people in Ethiopia than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sherife? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sherife is the 263,032nd most prevalent last name on earth, held by around 1 in 4,890,970 people. The surname Sherife is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sherife live; 97 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Sherife is also the 48,461st most frequently occurring forename at a global level, held by 14,068 people.
The last name Sherife is most widely held in Ethiopia, where it is held by 1,449 people, or 1 in 67,320. Apart from Ethiopia this surname is found in 16 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 1 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 percent live.
Sherife Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Sherife has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname declined 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sherife
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