Sharda
Sharda was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 613 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,163, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
111 babies in 1986, the peak
Sharda peaked in 1986, when 111 girls were given it, #1,238 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #17,163 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,446 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,869 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,455 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,456 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,940 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,667 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,024 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,640 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,987 | 11.2 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 28 | #3,857 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,479 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,141 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,391 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,434 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,177 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,809 | 37.4 |
| 1986 | 111 | #1,238 | 64.7 |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,675 | 40.7 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,821 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharda, and how old are they?
An estimated 597 Americans named Sharda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 34 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,560 people named Sharda (1,546 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 601 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,197 babies since 1880, Sharda is the fourth most given (15% 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 Sharda
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 Sharda and names like it
- Compare Sharda and ShardaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSharda peaked in 1986.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharda since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Sharda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.