Sharifa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Шарифа in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and 3 more.

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●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Sharifa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Bulgarian given name60 records spelled Sharifa13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Tanzania, India, Afghanistan

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

  Also written Шарифа, Sarifa, Šarifa

41 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●

Sharifa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, noble, eminent, honourable, highborn

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, noble, honourable, highborn; fem. of

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, noble, honored; feminine of Sharif.

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, noblewoman; honorable lady

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, noble, honourable

  as a name·African 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1904–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sharifa Jumab. 1970TZbadminton player
• Basirah Sharifa Nasirb. 1999BHBahraini female sprinter

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sharifa?

We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Sharifa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Sharifa have the most bearers?

Sharifa is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sharifa.

How common is Sharifa compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Sharifa is the 209th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Sharifa a male or female name?

Sharifa is a female 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 Sharifa mean?

Recorded meaning: Muslim feminine form of Sharifu: 'noble'