Girls' name · since 1974
Shareta
71 babies named Shareta in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #31,013 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shareta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 71 have been recorded since 1974.
Shareta has 71 recorded births among girls since 1974, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 1989.
- #31,013 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 71 born since 1974
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shareta ranks #31,013 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 71 born since 1974, peaking in the 1980s.
- #31,013 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 71
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shareta's 71 recorded births place it above 57.08% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shareta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Shareta splits its recorded history at 1981: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1974 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1981 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Shareta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–1989
- Peak year (1981)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Shareta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (45 births, 63% of the file).
1980s was Shareta's strongest decade.
45 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Shareta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
26 births
- 1980s
1980s
45 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 45 births (63% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shareta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.