Sharday
Sharday was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 797 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharday by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharday?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,751, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
170 babies in 1986, the peak
Sharday peaked in 1986, when 170 girls were given it, #939 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,751 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,617 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,461 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,423 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,268 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,465 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,447 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,208 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,870 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,099 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 14 | #7,166 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,158 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,583 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,487 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,898 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,812 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,208 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,676 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,142 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,787 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,970 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,004 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,578 | 46.0 |
| 1986 | 170 | #939 | 99.1 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,329 | 58.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharday a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharday has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharday: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharday, and how old are they?
An estimated 777 Americans named Sharday and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 656 people named Sharday (656 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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, Sharday is the third most given (19% 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 Sharday
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 Sharday and names like it
- Compare Sharday and ShardaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSharday peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharday since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Sharday.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharday alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.