Shardae
Shardae was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,404 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Shardae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shardae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shardae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,717, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
200 babies in 1986, the peak
Shardae peaked in 1986, when 200 girls were given it, #835 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,717 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,856 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,326 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,607 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,145 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,813 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,890 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,460 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,435 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 15 | #7,774 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,154 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,013 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,790 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,705 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,413 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,864 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,831 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,868 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 99 | #1,416 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,379 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 200 | #835 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,125 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shardae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shardae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shardae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shardae, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,404 Americans ever recorded as Shardae. The median Shardae alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,131 people named Shardae (1,130 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shardae born?
The states with the most babies named Shardae are Michigan, California and Pennsylvania, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 102 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 75 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 68 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 51 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 37 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Shardae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shardae is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1985 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shardae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,197 babies since 1880, Shardae is the most given (33% 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 Shardae
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 Shardae and names like it
- Compare Shardae and ShardeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShardae peaked in 1986.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shardae since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shardae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shardae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.