Shareen — girls' name
986 babies named Shareen in U.S. Social Security records since 1941, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Shareen was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Shareen in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shareen
The Social Security Administration has registered 986 babies named Shareen between 1941 and 2019, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shareen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 39 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shareen performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 261 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shareen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Shareen in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shareen 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 986 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.
Shareen at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shareen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1941
- Peak year (1972)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 79 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
986 total births across 79 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 39 births in a single year.
Shareen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 261 births that decade — 26% of Shareen's all-time total
Shareen decade highlights
- Peak decade 261 births
- Runner-up 193 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Shareen's strongest decade
261 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Shareen by state
Where Shareen concentrates geographically — total births since 1941
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 122 | 12.4% |
| #2 | California | | 58 | 5.9% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.5% |
122 of 986 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 12.4% of nationwide
- California 5.9% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 12.4% 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, 1941–2019 (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.