Ashraf (Name)

Ashraf (transliteration: Ashraf, Arabic: أشرف) is an Arabic name for boys that means “loftier”, “more exalted”, “loftiest”, “most exalted”.¹ Ashraf is the comparative and superlative form of sharīf (“exalted”, “lofty”).²

There are two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Ashraf:

• Ashraf (last name unknown) أشرف غير منسوب
• Ashraf bin Humayyir bin Dhuhl أشرف بن حمير بن ذهل

Below is the name Ashraf written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Ashraf written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names (Sultan Qaboos University, 1985), entry for أَشْرَف.
2. Taj al-Lughah wa Sihaah al-Arabiyyah by al-Jawhari (d. 1003 CE), entry for شرف.