Sharad
Sharad was last recorded in 2006, when 8 babies were given it; 105 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sharad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sharad is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “autumn” (शरद).
Borrowed from Sanskrit शरद (śarada, “autumn”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sharad?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,425, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1982, the peak
Sharad peaked in 1982, when 8 boys were given it, #4,928 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #9,425 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,039 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,925 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,564 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,840 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,484 | 3.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,751 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,409 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,392 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,928 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 7 | #5,429 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,940 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,615 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,032 | 4.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,986 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,536 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,884 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharad, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Sharad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,122 people named Sharad (24 women and girls, 1,098 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,986 babies since 1880, Sharad is the third most given (5.3% 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 Sharad
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 Sharad and names like it
- Compare Sharad and SharodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSharad peaked in 1982.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Sharad: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Sharad.
- Names starting with SMost given first.