Sharmon
Sharmon was last recorded in 1978, when 5 babies were given it; 465 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharmon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharmon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,148, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1968, the peak
Sharmon peaked in 1968, when 44 girls were given it, #1,808 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #11,148 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,271 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,147 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,363 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,760 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,806 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,048 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,585 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,345 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,389 | 17.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 44 | #1,808 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,917 | 23.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,374 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,722 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,391 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,841 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,755 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,485 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,139 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,115 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,715 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,890 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,662 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,131 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,995 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,652 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,909 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,460 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,176 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,326 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,578 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,996 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharmon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 465 Americans recorded as Sharmon, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sharmon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharmon, and how old are they?
An estimated 398 Americans named Sharmon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 56 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 442 people named Sharmon (386 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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, Sharmon is the second most given (22% 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 Sharmon
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 Sharmon and names like it
- Compare Sharmon and SharmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSharmon peaked in 1968.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharmon since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Sharmon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sharmon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.