Aarif

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aarif is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 980◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 4.6K
  • INIndia1 in 5.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.0K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
204 ●

302K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.5K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

ArifLatin · Hindi●439K records
আরিফBengali · Bangla●1.2K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arif in IN India, BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan and 10 more and Areef in GY Guyana, AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain. See Areef 2, ,c, learned

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aarif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#752536,338252K rec.—1.8KArif160
BD Bangladesh#108289,84416K rec.—listedArif123
PK Pakistan#14839,2404.7K rec.—listedArif110
MY Malaysia#9545,3496.4K rec.——Arif44
GB United Kingdom—3,4321.8K rec.—4Arif87
US United States—2,36813K rec.1 in 140K2.6KArif204
TR Türkiye—1,6121.7K rec.——Arif26
AL Albania—875—1 in 3.5K875——
SG Singapore#7136851K rec.——Arif22
SE Sweden—617△197 rec.1 in 17K617Arif15
CA Canada—549758 rec.—1Arif63
IT Italy—387559 rec.—5Arif18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi23K54%
  • Urdu3.9K9%
  • 3.7K9%
  • Arabic3.4K8%
  • English3.1K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi22,96454%
Urdu3,8669%
3,7129%
Arabic3,4188%
English3,0917%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aarif is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname5.3K records spelled Aarif20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Aàrif, Âäŕif, Aàrïf, Åãřįf, Aarîf

  • Sinhala surname270 records spelled Aarif3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aarif is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In gag, smart, wise, knowledgeable

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence●

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Aarif
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—522#4,996
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—265#14,566
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—74#34,185
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—74#33,924
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—45#38,289
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—29#8,804
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—8#20,463
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—7#18,678
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20076#72,467
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#4,013
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520253#591
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20132—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aarif?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Aarif (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Aarif have the most bearers?
Aarif is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled arif.
How common is Aarif compared with other names?
In India, Aarif is the 752nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Aarif mean?
Recorded meaning: learned, expert, authority, saint, the highest position a mystic can attain.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aarif” — the 752nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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