Sharen
Sharen was last recorded in 2013, when 12 babies were given it; 3,782 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Sharen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 64 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,518, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
209 babies in 1947, the peak
Sharen peaked in 1947, when 209 girls were given it, #589 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #9,518 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,732 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,584 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,672 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,641 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,599 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #15,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,390 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,634 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,178 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,292 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,292 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,884 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,395 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,263 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,438 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,672 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,813 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,151 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,903 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,069 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,547 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,618 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,556 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 81 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,256 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 67 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,182 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 95 | #1,079 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 119 | #943 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 124 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 112 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 125 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 122 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 116 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 120 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 149 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 171 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 197 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 209 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 165 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 153 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 158 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 201 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 153 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 106 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 67 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,129 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,752 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharen, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 3,782 Americans ever recorded as Sharen. The median Sharen alive today is 72 years old; half are between 64 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 3,453 people named Sharen (3,441 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 471 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,690 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 376 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 35 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sharen born?
The states with the most babies named Sharen are Pennsylvania, California and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 288 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 269 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 250 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 162 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 157 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 125 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 81 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 67 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 62 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Sharen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharen is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1934 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sharen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 757,809 babies since 1880, Sharen is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 184 babies recorded by SSA was a Sharen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sharen
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 Sharen and names like it
- Compare Sharen and SharonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharen peaked in 1947.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharen since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Sharen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.