Asif
A Hebrew name meaning "gather" or "harvest". In Poland it stays rare: about 170 men carry it and most Poles have never met one, said AH-sheef.
Asif Pronunciation
Asif is pronounced AH-sheef (/ˈaɕif/).
What Asif means
Where Asif comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Asif grows from a Hebrew word, אָסִיף, that names the gathering-in of crops at the close of the season. In the book of Exodus the autumn festival is called Chag ha-Asif, the Feast of Ingathering. The root behind it, a-s-f, means to gather. The short meaning, gather and harvest, sits close to the word's oldest use.
Arabic gives the name a second home. Islamic tradition assigns it to Asif ibn Barkhiya, the learned vizier of King Solomon, remembered as the one who brought the throne of the Queen of Sheba in an instant. That story tied Asif to a person handed a difficult task.
On a Polish class register the name would stand alone. Asif keeps no diminutives, no feminine twin, no softened variant. A pupil answering to it answers to the Hebrew word for the harvest brought in.
How many people are named Asif
1 in 123388 men in Poland is named Asif. 173 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2421 among male names.
Asif as a middle name
Asif is a first name for 173 men in Poland and a middle name for another 30, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1527th, between Arnaud (30) and Casey (30).
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#1525 Adem30
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#1526 Arnaud30
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#1527 Asif30
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#1528 Casey30
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#1529 Dilip30