Sharia
Sharia was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 653 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,149, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1977, the peak
Sharia peaked in 1977, when 32 girls were given it, #2,650 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #17,149 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,742 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,073 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,657 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,294 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,618 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,044 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,791 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,685 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,168 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 18 | #6,531 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,992 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,257 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,457 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,864 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,943 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,434 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,007 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,420 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,408 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,785 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,963 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,192 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,801 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,223 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,024 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,101 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,705 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,226 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,835 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,089 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,155 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,517 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,936 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,588 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,747 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,650 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,525 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,897 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,974 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,399 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,354 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,260 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,395 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,474 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,978 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharia 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 Sharia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharia, and how old are they?
An estimated 631 Americans named Sharia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 639 people named Sharia (621 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 55,976 babies since 1880, Sharia is the eighth most given (1.2% 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 Sharia
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 Sharia and names like it
- Compare Sharia and ShariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSharia peaked in 1977.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharia since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Sharia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.