Sharman
Sharman was last recorded in 1983, when 7 babies were given it; 1,042 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,823, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
166 babies in 1950, the peak
Sharman peaked in 1950, when 166 babies were given it (160 girls, #668 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 7 | #8,823 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,915 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,973 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,438 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,493 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,015 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,405 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,537 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,257 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,530 | 18.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 30 | #2,508 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,342 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,159 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,070 | 20.0 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,564 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,771 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,390 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,227 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,487 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,577 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,883 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,252 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,247 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,777 | 18.6 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,756 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,147 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,761 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,485 | 23.4 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,207 | 34.0 |
| 1951 | 76 | #1,066 | 42.2 |
| 1950 | 160 | #668 | 93.4 |
| 1949 | 126 | #770 | 73.6 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,732 | 17.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,289 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,042 Americans recorded as Sharman, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sharman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharman, and how old are they?
An estimated 824 Americans named Sharman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 58 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 979 people named Sharman (889 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 890 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,105 babies since 1880, Sharman is the most given (50% 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 Sharman
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 Sharman and names like it
- Compare Sharman and SharmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSharman peaked in 1950.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharman since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Sharman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.