Sharod
Sharod was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,509 among boys’ names; 1,318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Sharod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharod?
#10,509 among boys’ names, 2025
Sharod fell from #5,029 in 2015 to #10,509 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 4.1 per million.
51 babies in 1990, the peak
Sharod peaked in 1990, when 51 boys were given it, #1,628 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,509 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,869 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,605 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,088 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,722 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,428 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,054 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,704 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,591 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,749 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,029 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,947 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,514 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,443 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,390 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,292 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,016 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,634 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,236 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,340 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,995 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,976 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,080 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,662 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,128 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,616 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,923 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,698 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,963 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,424 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,088 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,002 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,246 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,119 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,126 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 51 | #1,628 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,822 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,586 | 24.0 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,705 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,866 | 17.9 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,963 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,026 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,070 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,882 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,804 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,045 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,665 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,752 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,121 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,446 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,937 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,440 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,385 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,120 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,609 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,328 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharod has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharod, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,318 Americans ever recorded as Sharod. The median Sharod alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 888 people named Sharod (11 women and girls, 877 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 192 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 551 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 386 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 134 |
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 Sharod born?
The states with the most babies named Sharod are New York, Florida and Georgia, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 145 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 64 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 29 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Sharod is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharod is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.6 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 boys’ 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 Sharod 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,986 babies since 1880, Sharod is the most given (66% 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 Sharod
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 Sharod and names like it
- Compare Sharod and SharrodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSharod peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharod since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Sharod.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharod alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.