Shareka — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shareka

The Social Security Administration has registered 795 babies named Shareka between 1972 and 1999, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shareka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 58 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shareka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 481 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shareka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Shareka in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shareka 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 795 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.