Áref
surname · Latin script
Áref is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 759K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aref in US United States, SY Syria, YE Yemen and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
s. In r. Curtea de Arges, In doc. variaza : Hare!, etc. (v. Ind. 13 16 B) ; ci. tc. araf purgatoriu" si n. Arif-bei (Gat tc I).
Sources 2
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Áref counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #737 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Aref | 13 |
| YE Yemen | #400 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Aref | 38 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Aref | 66 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Aref | 23 |
| JO Jordan | #721 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Aref | 50 |
| US United States | — | 438 | 1 in 759K | 436 | Aref | 148 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Áref have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Áref in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aref.
- How common is the name Áref?
- In the United States, the national register counted 438 people named Áref in 2020, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
- How common is Áref compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Áref is the 737th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1refThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Áref” — the 737th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.