Sharilynn
Sharilynn was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharilynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,820, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1966, the peak
Sharilynn peaked in 1966, when 11 girls were given it, #4,161 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #11,820 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,220 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,140 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,302 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,133 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,161 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,389 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,213 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,400 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,230 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #7,138 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,112 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,860 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,160 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,099 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,932 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharilynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharilynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 91 Americans named Sharilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 176 people named Sharilynn (176 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 96 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Sharilynn?
Sharilynn is a less common spelling of Sharilyn: SSA has recorded 106 Sharilynn and 1,790 Sharilyn since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,293 babies since 1880, Sharilynn is the sixth most given (2.0% 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 Sharilynn
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 Sharilynn and names like it
- Compare Sharilynn and SharilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSharilynn peaked in 1966.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Sharilynn.
- Names starting with SMost given first.