Sharita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sharita

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,637 babies named Sharita between 1955 and 2013, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 165 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,332 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sharita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 171 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharita in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sharita in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,637 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.