Sharell — girls' name
1,366 babies named Sharell in U.S. Social Security records since 1939, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Sharell was born in this single decade.
72 babies were named Sharell in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sharell
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,366 babies named Sharell between 1939 and 2015, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 72 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharell performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 488 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Sharell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 95 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharell in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sharell 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 1,366 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.
Sharell at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sharell popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1939
- Peak year (1986)
- 72
- Annual births at peak — across 77 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
1,366 total births across 77 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 72 births in a single year.
Sharell popularity over time — boys
16 total births recorded since 1976 (Sharell as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Sharell accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sharell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 488 births that decade — 36% of Sharell's all-time total
Sharell decade highlights
- Peak decade 488 births
- Runner-up 347 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sharell's strongest decade
488 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Sharell by state
Where Sharell concentrates geographically — total births since 1939
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 95 | 7.0% |
| #2 | Florida | | 39 | 2.9% |
| #3 | Louisiana | | 34 | 2.5% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 32 | 2.3% |
| #5 | California | | 30 | 2.2% |
| #6 | Pennsylvania | | 24 | 1.8% |
| #7 | New Jersey | | 16 | 1.2% |
| #8 | Texas | | 13 | 1.0% |
95 of 1,366 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 10 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 7.0% of nationwide
- Florida 2.9% of nationwide
- Louisiana 2.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 2.3% of nationwide
- California 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 10 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 7.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Sharell appears in 10 states. Explore state details →
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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, 1939–2015 (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.