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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Sword of religion
  • Arabic : Honest; honorable; noble

Boy name variations

Sharif

Sharif

- 35% this year
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Shareef

Shareef

- 47% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Seif

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a soap maker, from Middle High German seife, German Seife ‘soap’.
  • Arabic : from a personal name based on sayf ‘sword’. Saifullah ‘sword of Allah’ was a title of honor bestowed by the Prophet Muhammad on the military leader Khālid ibn-al-Walīd (see Khalid).

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