Shareefah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shareefah

The Social Security Administration has registered 43 babies named Shareefah between 1976 and 1982, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shareefah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 11 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shareefah performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Shareefah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shareefah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shareefah 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 43 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.