The SHARIF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,484	11595	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	2	107068	0	0
Change since 1880	+2482	+95473	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	56	23171	0	3
United Kingdom	2,076	2864	0.005	45

Top States for SHARIF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	440	6952	0.001	13
New York	281	7656	0.001	15
Texas	222	8986	0.001	11
New Jersey	199	5482	0.002	24
Illinois	131	11250	0.001	11
Top States for SHARIF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	199	5482	0.002	24
Connecticut	56	9159	0.002	16
Virginia	112	7183	0.002	16
New York	281	7656	0.001	15
California	440	6952	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SHARIF live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHARIF represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHARIF in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHARIF by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHARIF

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Somalia

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of SHARIF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	746	30.03
Asian/Pacific	643	25.89
White (Caucasian)	623	25.08
Mixed Race	394	15.86
White (Hispanic)	72	2.9
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.24

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SHARIF surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SHARIF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHARIF.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.