Sharif
Sharif was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,508 among boys’ names; 2,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Sharif and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharif by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharif?
#10,508 among boys’ names, 2025
Sharif fell from #4,269 in 2015 to #10,508 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 4.1 per million.
82 babies in 1980, the peak
Sharif peaked in 1980, when 82 boys were given it, #1,003 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,508 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,403 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,832 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,097 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,469 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,395 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,087 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,071 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,280 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,873 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,269 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,761 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,039 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,224 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,194 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,119 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,153 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,092 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,874 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,779 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,517 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,629 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,569 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,214 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 62 | #1,808 | 31.9 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,888 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,846 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,657 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,493 | 37.7 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,566 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 68 | #1,449 | 35.7 |
| 1994 | 67 | #1,447 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 69 | #1,400 | 35.2 |
| 1992 | 67 | #1,387 | 33.5 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,300 | 37.1 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,220 | 39.4 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,286 | 36.0 |
| 1988 | 56 | #1,396 | 29.3 |
| 1987 | 53 | #1,397 | 28.4 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,471 | 25.5 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,254 | 31.9 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,107 | 37.1 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,200 | 32.4 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,105 | 38.0 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,022 | 44.7 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,003 | 46.0 |
| 1979 | 81 | #989 | 47.1 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,108 | 38.4 |
| 1977 | 80 | #962 | 48.7 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,038 | 41.4 |
| 1975 | 73 | #964 | 46.8 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,016 | 42.0 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,372 | 24.4 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,501 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,773 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,718 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,966 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,324 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,957 | 5.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,538 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharif a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharif has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sharif: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharif, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,690 Americans ever recorded as Sharif. The median Sharif alive today is 34 years old; half are between 24 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,836 people named Sharif (66 women and girls, 2,770 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,502 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 598 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 999 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 696 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 261 |
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 Sharif born?
The states with the most babies named Sharif are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 657 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 358 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| New Jersey | 311 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| California | 142 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Sharif is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharif is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1963 it was given 4.0 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 boys’ 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 Sharif 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,645 babies since 1880, Sharif is the most given (58% 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 Sharif
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 Sharif and names like it
- Compare Sharif and ShareefBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSharif peaked in 1980.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharif since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Sharif.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharif alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.