Ariff
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ariff is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 4.2K◐
- BNBrunei1 in 2.4K
- SGSingapore1 in 61K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9 ●
- Sources
- 84 ●
- 1 in 83K ◐
across 1 country
20K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #279 | 15,610 | 17K rec. | — | — | Ariff | 84 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 443 | 870 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 36 |
| IN India | — | 409 | 462 rec. | — | 29 | Ariff | 35 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 433 rec. | — | listed | Ariff | 33 |
| SG Singapore | — | 175 | 254 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 25 |
| MX Mexico | — | 167 | 158 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | 72 | 31 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 41 | 56 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 12 | 19 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 7 |
| AR Argentina | — | 11 | 14 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 9 | — | 1 in 83K | 9 | — | — |
| PE Peru | — | 8 | 7 rec. | — | — | Ariff | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay11K45%
- Indonesian5.2K22%
- English4.8K20%
- Hindi6253%
- Spanish4182%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 10,725 | 45% |
| Indonesian | 5,243 | 22% |
| English | 4,782 | 20% |
| Hindi | 625 | 3% |
| Spanish | 418 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- A. F. Hassan Ariffb. 1941BDBangladeshi politician
- Mohamed Ariffb. 1942economist (Bond University)
- Noor Ariffb. 1998SGSingaporean footballer
- Tajul Ariffb. 1998MYMalaysian singer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #670 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #90,410 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #585 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 7 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ariff?
- We estimate roughly 9 people bear Ariff (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Ariff have the most bearers?
- Ariff is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled ariff.
- How common is Ariff compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ariff is the 279th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Ariff a male or female name?
- Ariff 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.
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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, “Ariff” — the 279th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.