Sharayah — girls' name
615 babies named Sharayah in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Sharayah was born in this single decade.
63 babies were named Sharayah in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sharayah
The Social Security Administration has registered 615 babies named Sharayah between 1985 and 2020, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharayah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 63 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharayah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 264 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sharayah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Oregon. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharayah in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sharayah 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 615 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.
Sharayah at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sharayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1985
- Peak year (1987)
- 63
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
615 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 63 births in a single year.
Sharayah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 264 births that decade — 43% of Sharayah's all-time total
Sharayah decade highlights
- Peak decade 264 births
- Runner-up 248 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sharayah's strongest decade
264 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Sharayah by state
Where Sharayah concentrates geographically — total births since 1985
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 47 | 7.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 22 | 3.6% |
| #3 | Oregon | | 17 | 2.8% |
| #4 | Washington | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #5 | Arizona | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #6 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #7 | New York | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.8% |
47 of 615 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 7.6% of nationwide
- Texas 3.6% of nationwide
- Oregon 2.8% of nationwide
- Washington 1.6% of nationwide
- Arizona 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.6% 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, 1985–2020 (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.