Sharleen
Sharleen was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 2,623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,010 Americans named Sharleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 43 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,151, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
133 babies in 1951, the peak
Sharleen peaked in 1951, when 133 girls were given it, #770 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #17,151 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,286 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,644 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,343 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,050 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,825 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,884 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,041 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,146 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,497 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | #9,406 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,931 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,812 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,090 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,641 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,585 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,210 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,238 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,759 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,195 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,762 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,882 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,064 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,965 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,409 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,786 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,673 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,526 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,982 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,337 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,564 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,244 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,920 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,960 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,962 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,223 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,943 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,605 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,486 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,978 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,176 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,061 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,424 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,798 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,600 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,213 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,266 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,164 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,038 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,202 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,748 | 28.0 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,481 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,341 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,911 | 21.0 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,857 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,975 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,249 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,865 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,049 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,756 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,978 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,625 | 22.0 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,577 | 22.9 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,532 | 23.0 |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,273 | 31.4 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,150 | 37.7 |
| 1952 | 72 | #1,116 | 38.8 |
| 1951 | 133 | #770 | 73.9 |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,060 | 44.4 |
| 1949 | 78 | #1,016 | 45.6 |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,103 | 38.9 |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,179 | 33.3 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,269 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,349 | 27.5 |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,112 | 37.7 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,175 | 34.4 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,363 | 26.7 |
| 1941 | 48 | #1,063 | 39.7 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,239 | 31.5 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,260 | 31.9 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,314 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,488 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,683 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,509 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,763 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 42 | #1,083 | 41.7 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,527 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,279 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,990 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,994 | 6.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,740 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharleen, and how old are they?
2,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 2,623 Americans ever recorded as Sharleen. The median Sharleen alive today is 61 years old; half are between 43 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,317 people named Sharleen (2,316 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 184 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 793 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 474 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 327 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 175 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 60 |
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 Sharleen born?
The states with the most babies named Sharleen are California, New York and Michigan, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 336 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 74 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Hawaii | 52 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Washington | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sharleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharleen is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Sharleen 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 4,354 babies since 1880, Sharleen is the most given (60% 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 Sharleen
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 Sharleen and names like it
- Compare Sharleen and SharlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSharleen peaked in 1951.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Sharleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.