Entry № 9516 · Arabic origin

Sharifa Sharifa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-REE-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Noble"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "noble".

Sharifa is from the Arabic Sharīfa.

Noble — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

شريفة
Transliteration
Sharīfa
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈriː.fə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sharifa stands.

Sharifa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sharifas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ahl al-Bayt / Sharifa lineage
Arabic noble + female descendants of Prophet through Fatima + Ahl al-Bayt People of the House + pan-Islamic Sunni + Shia heritage + Sharifa Khasif Sudanese activist
Islamic lineage

Names connected to Sharifa.

The number behind Sharifa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sharifa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.