Ashenafi
given name · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ashenafi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 1.6K◐
- SESweden1 in 179K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 484K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈471 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 78 ●
- 1 in 179K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
3.4K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #51 | 2,428 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Ashenafi | 32 |
| US United States | — | 394 | 965 rec. | 1 in 844K | 394 | Ashenafi | 78 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 70 | 75 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 57△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 179K | 57 | Ashenafi | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 35 | 34 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 25 | 22 rec. | — | 5 | Ashenafi | 9 |
| CN China | — | 20 | 2 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 16 | 17 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | 16 | 24 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 10 | 13 rec. | — | — | Ashenafi | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 7△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 796K | 35 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 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●
- Amharic2.6K38%
- 2.4K35%
- English83313%
- Arabic1472%
- French971%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 2,563 | 38% |
| 2,361 | 35% | |
| English | 833 | 13% |
| Arabic | 147 | 2% |
| French | 97 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 18 |
| 2020 | 21 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 8 years between 2012–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 394 | #24,456 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 354 | #61,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 57 | #12,585 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #12,748 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #11,842 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #21,062 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 15 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ashenafi?
- We estimate roughly 471 people bear Ashenafi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ashenafi have the most bearers?
- Ashenafi is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled ashenafi.
- How common is Ashenafi compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Ashenafi is the 51st most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Ashenafi a male or female name?
- Ashenafi 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Ashenafi” — the 51st most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.