Sharan
Sharan was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 1,248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,458, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1947, the peak
Sharan peaked in 1947, when 65 girls were given it, #1,117 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,458 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,081 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,445 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,098 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,028 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,076 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,993 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,004 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,039 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,107 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #10,151 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,818 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,787 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,834 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,290 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,967 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,511 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,819 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,020 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,795 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,151 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,287 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,446 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,088 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,212 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,737 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,957 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,051 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,646 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,811 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,732 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,768 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,591 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,523 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,006 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,847 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,017 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,675 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,888 | 16.4 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,903 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,937 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,695 | 18.6 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,605 | 20.0 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,603 | 20.0 |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,209 | 34.4 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,246 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,513 | 22.4 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,117 | 36.7 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,355 | 26.7 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,414 | 25.2 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,332 | 27.9 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,339 | 27.2 |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,322 | 28.1 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,795 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,785 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,721 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,900 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,744 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,102 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,248 Americans recorded as Sharan, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sharan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharan, and how old are they?
An estimated 946 Americans named Sharan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 56 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,134 people named Sharan (1,793 women and girls, 341 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,034 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 757,809 babies since 1880, Sharan is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 184 babies (2.7%), the second most given that year.
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 Sharan
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 Sharan and names like it
- Compare Sharan and SharonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharan peaked in 1947.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharan since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Sharan.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharan alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.