Areef
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Areef is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 5 (‘areef) (s,c): learned, expert, authority.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 204 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
302K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arif in IN India, BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan and 10 more and Aarif in MA Morocco.
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●
5 (‘areef) (s,c): learned, expert, authority. See Aarif 3 le, learned
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #752 | 536,338 | 252K rec. | — | 1.8K | Arif | 160 |
| BD Bangladesh | #108 | 289,844 | 16K rec. | — | listed | Arif | 123 |
| PK Pakistan | #148 | 39,240 | 4.7K rec. | — | listed | Arif | 110 |
| MY Malaysia | #954 | 5,349 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Arif | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,432 | 1.8K rec. | — | 4 | Arif | 87 |
| US United States | — | 2,368 | 13K rec. | 1 in 140K | 2.6K | Arif | 204 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,612 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Arif | 26 |
| AL Albania | — | 875 | — | 1 in 3.5K | 875 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #713 | 685 | 1K rec. | — | — | Arif | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 617△ | 197 rec. | 1 in 17K | 617 | Arif | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 549 | 758 rec. | — | 1 | Arif | 63 |
| IT Italy | — | 387 | 559 rec. | — | 5 | Arif | 18 |
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Languages●
- Hindi2.6K24%
- Arabic2.3K21%
- English1.5K14%
- 1.1K10%
- Assamese1.1K10%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 2,607 | 24% |
| Arabic | 2,279 | 21% |
| English | 1,475 | 14% |
| 1,101 | 10% | |
| Assamese | 1,062 | 10% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Areef 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 Arabic, learned; expert; authority
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.1K | #3,124 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 54 | #34,087 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 28 | #7,205 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #1,094 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #171,421 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #590 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2021 | 1 | #2,059 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Areef?
- We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Areef (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Areef have the most bearers?
- Areef is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled arif.
- How common is Areef compared with other names?
- In India, Areef is the 752nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Areef a male or female name?
- Areef is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Areef mean?
- Recorded meaning: 5 (‘areef) (s,c): learned, expert, authority.
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About this data
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, “Areef” — the 752nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.