Sharalyn
Sharalyn was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 386 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,383, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1940, the peak
Sharalyn peaked in 1940, when 23 girls were given it, #1,677 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #15,383 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,854 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,038 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,373 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,179 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,150 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,020 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,258 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,833 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,015 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,820 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,508 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,404 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,019 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,013 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,526 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,850 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,352 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,332 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,676 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,554 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,198 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,627 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,840 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,225 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,106 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,404 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,713 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,458 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,300 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,677 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,222 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,958 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,071 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,097 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,632 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,580 | 5.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,662 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,470 | 10.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,338 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,452 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,686 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,519 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,677 | 20.1 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,153 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharalyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 303 Americans named Sharalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 49 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 406 people named Sharalyn (401 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,380 babies since 1880, Sharalyn is the fourth most given (7.2% 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 Sharalyn
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 Sharalyn and names like it
- Compare Sharalyn and SharilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharalyn peaked in 1940.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Sharalyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharalyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.