Shariff
Shariff was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 572 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shariff by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shariff?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,443, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1983, the peak
Shariff peaked in 1983, when 30 boys were given it, #1,857 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,443 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,741 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,886 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,570 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,239 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,714 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,500 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,682 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,238 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,131 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #9,228 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,364 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,234 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,750 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,680 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,222 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,398 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,664 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,874 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,785 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,576 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,202 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,431 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,674 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,581 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,474 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,409 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,005 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,690 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,857 | 16.7 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,688 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,873 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,077 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,360 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 25 | #2,007 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,341 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,493 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,052 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,291 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,758 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,119 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,665 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,168 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shariff a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shariff has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shariff: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shariff, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Shariff and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Shariff (26 women and girls, 480 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 549 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below 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).
Where are babies named Shariff born?
The states with the most babies named Shariff are New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 100% 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 | 138 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| New Jersey | 49 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Shariff is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shariff is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 3.5 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 Shariff with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shariff?
Shariff is a less common spelling of Sharif: SSA has recorded 572 Shariff and 2,690 Sharif since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,720 babies since 1880, Shariff is the third most given (12% 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 Shariff
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 Shariff and names like it
- Compare Shariff and SharifBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShariff peaked in 1983.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shariff since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Shariff.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shariff alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.