Shara
Shara was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,676 among girls’ names; 4,950 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,580 Americans named Shara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shara?
#14,676 among girls’ names, 2025
Shara fell from #10,048 in 2015 to #14,676 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.7 per million.
232 babies in 1979, the peak
Shara peaked in 1979, when 232 girls were given it, #719 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,676 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,311 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,372 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,196 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,146 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,280 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,756 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,563 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,048 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,801 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #8,966 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,276 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,003 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,227 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,392 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,694 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,676 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,312 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,771 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,520 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,011 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,878 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,475 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,057 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,862 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,412 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,798 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,785 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,720 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,449 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,311 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,150 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,647 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,651 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 112 | #1,366 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 107 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 113 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 155 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 164 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 191 | #826 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 183 | #841 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 210 | #781 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 181 | #862 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 210 | #783 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 232 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 171 | #862 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 149 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 126 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 123 | #997 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 115 | #1,041 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 129 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 100 | #1,114 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 127 | #992 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,117 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 85 | #1,212 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,307 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,314 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,282 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 64 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,575 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,186 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,066 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,993 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,004 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,936 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,695 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,405 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,396 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,506 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shara has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shara, and how old are they?
4,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 4,950 Americans ever recorded as Shara. The median Shara alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 4,941 people named Shara (4,875 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 59 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 461 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,820 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 346 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 86 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shara born?
The states with the most babies named Shara are Texas, California and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 454 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 432 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 235 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 115 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 80 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 68 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Shara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shara is most over-represented in Texas: since 1927 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,276 babies since 1880, Shara is the second most given (8.8% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shara and names like it
- Compare Shara and ShariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShara peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shara since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shara.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shara alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.