Sharlie
Sharlie was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 342 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharlie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,461, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1933, the peak
Sharlie peaked in 1933, when 20 girls were given it, #1,764 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,461 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,775 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,605 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,176 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,198 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,179 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,205 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,577 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,147 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,502 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 10 | #8,495 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,118 | 4.7 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,577 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,883 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,641 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,255 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,157 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,845 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,032 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,844 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,688 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,605 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,890 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,820 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,526 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,898 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,527 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,072 | 2.9 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,966 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,224 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,275 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,206 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,209 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,345 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,637 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,617 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,399 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,982 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,470 | 7.0 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,904 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,764 | 19.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharlie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Sharlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 35 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 380 people named Sharlie (374 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,453 babies since 1880, Sharlie is the fourth most given (4.0% 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 Sharlie and names like it
- Compare Sharlie and SharlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sSharlie peaked in 1933.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Sharlie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharlie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.