Girls' name · since 1975
Sharitta
Sharitta has 54 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1982 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #34,192 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 54
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Sharitta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 54 have been recorded since 1975.
Sharitta has 54 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1990.
- #34,192 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 54 born since 1975
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sharitta ranks #34,192 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 54 born since 1975, peaking in the 1980s.
- #34,192 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 54
- born since 1975
- 1980s
- peak decade
Sharitta's 54 recorded births place it above 52.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sharitta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Sharitta splits its recorded history at 1983: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1983 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1982 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Sharitta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1990
- Peak year (1982)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Sharitta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (36 births, 67% of the file).
1980s was Sharitta's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Sharitta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 12
1970s
12 births
- 1980s
1980s
36 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 36 births (67% of all-time use).
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- Sharitta's decade-level peak was the 1980s (36 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Similar record span (~15 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sharitta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.