Sharel
Sharel was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 337 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,276, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1953, the peak
Sharel peaked in 1953, when 15 girls were given it, #2,907 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #17,276 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,722 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,106 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,997 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,660 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,141 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,187 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,615 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,465 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,009 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 | #10,023 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,959 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,598 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,267 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,527 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,218 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,818 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,873 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,645 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,718 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,906 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,450 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,214 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,744 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,715 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,992 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,313 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,277 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,415 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,725 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,062 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,907 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,462 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,316 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,848 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,315 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,288 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,395 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,636 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,641 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,134 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,784 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,520 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,277 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,853 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,276 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharel, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Sharel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 44 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Sharel (348 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Sharel?
Sharel is a less common spelling of Sharell: SSA has recorded 337 Sharel and 1,382 Sharell since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,891 babies since 1880, Sharel is the fifth most given (5.7% 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 Sharel
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 Sharel and names like it
- Compare Sharel and SharellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSharel peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Sharel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.