Meaning not yet researched.
Sharif: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #962 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #962 in 1977; #10,512 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sharif in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,512 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #962.
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Sharif: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #962 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 82 (1980).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Sharif, making it the 10,512th most common boys’ name of the year, down 5,105 places from #5,407 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 18 boys named Sharif in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #962, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 1980. For comparison, it was #4,271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sharif in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 2,690 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 679 babies named Sharif.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US boys were named Sharif; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shareef, Shariff and Sharief are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shareef (1,196), Shariff (572), Sharief (187), Sharieff (33), Shariyf (20), Sharaf (10), Sharrief (10), Shareif (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sharif in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,512 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,407 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,837 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,102 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,473 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,399 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,091 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,075 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,284 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,874 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,271 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,764 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,041 |
| 2012 | — | — | 24 | #4,227 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,196 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,120 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,154 |
| 2008 | — | — | 38 | #3,094 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,876 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,780 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,521 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,633 |
| 2003 | — | — | 40 | #2,573 |
| 2002 | — | — | 48 | #2,218 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,812 |
| 2000 | — | — | 56 | #1,892 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,849 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,660 |
| 1997 | — | — | 71 | #1,496 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,569 |
| 1995 | — | — | 68 | #1,454 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,452 |
| 1993 | — | — | 69 | #1,405 |
| 1992 | — | — | 67 | #1,392 |
| 1991 | — | — | 75 | #1,306 |
| 1990 | — | — | 81 | #1,225 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,291 |
| 1988 | — | — | 56 | #1,400 |
| 1987 | — | — | 53 | #1,399 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,472 |
| 1985 | — | — | 59 | #1,255 |
| 1984 | — | — | 67 | #1,108 |
| 1983 | — | — | 58 | #1,200 |
| 1982 | — | — | 69 | #1,105 |
| 1981 | — | — | 80 | #1,022 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #1,003 |
| 1979 | — | — | 81 | #989 |
| 1978 | — | — | 63 | #1,108 |
| 1977 | — | — | 80 | #962 |
| 1976 | — | — | 65 | #1,038 |
| 1975 | — | — | 73 | #964 |
| 1974 | — | — | 66 | #1,016 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,372 |
| 1972 | — | — | 33 | #1,501 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,774 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,070 | 13 | #2,719 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,967 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,325 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,958 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,540 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).