Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic sharaf ‘honor’, ‘nobility’, ‘dignity’. It is used in combination with other words in names such as Sharaf-ud-Din ‘honor of religion’ and Sharaf-ud-Dawlah ‘honor of the state’, the latter being the name of a Buwayhid sultan (ruled 983–989).
- Indian : variant of Shroff.