Sharai — girls' name
465 babies named Sharai in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Sharai was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Sharai in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sharai
The Social Security Administration has registered 465 babies named Sharai between 1971 and 2017, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharai currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sharai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sharai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 465 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sharai at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sharai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1971
- Peak year (2000)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
465 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 23 births in a single year.
Sharai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 186 births that decade — 40% of Sharai's all-time total
Sharai decade highlights
- Peak decade 186 births
- Runner-up 132 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Sharai's strongest decade
186 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Sharai by state
Where Sharai concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 56 | 12.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 5 | 1.1% |
56 of 465 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 12.0% of nationwide
- Texas 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.