Sharley
Sharley was last recorded in 2010, when 8 babies were given it; 156 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,281, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 2010, the peak
Sharley peaked in 2010, when 8 girls were given it, #13,281 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,281 | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,794 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,728 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,178 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,475 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,576 | 3.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,864 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,148 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,536 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,153 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | #8,957 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,843 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,137 | 3.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,222 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,378 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,052 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,384 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,100 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,967 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,494 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,271 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,810 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,856 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,745 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,867 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,727 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharley, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Sharley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 32 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Sharley (300 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 Sharley?
Sharley is a less common spelling of Sharlee: SSA has recorded 156 Sharley and 635 Sharlee since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,678 babies since 1880, Sharley is the fourth 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.
More about Sharley and names like it
- Compare Sharley and SharleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSharley peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Sharley.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharley alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.