Sharol
Sharol was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,015 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharol?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,313, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1949, the peak
Sharol peaked in 1949, when 46 girls were given it, #1,369 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,313 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,318 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,287 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,066 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,547 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,498 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,734 | 4.2 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,012 | 2.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,611 | 3.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,535 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #8,226 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,058 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,226 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,713 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,878 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,578 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,009 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,434 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,218 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,296 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,940 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,347 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,662 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,233 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,815 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,369 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,860 | 17.1 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,863 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,096 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,016 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,778 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,852 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,837 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,371 | 26.3 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,369 | 26.9 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,489 | 23.0 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,521 | 22.0 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,462 | 23.5 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,372 | 26.8 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,427 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,317 | 28.0 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,584 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,443 | 24.8 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,515 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,943 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,322 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,548 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,137 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,384 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,868 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharol has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharol, and how old are they?
An estimated 717 Americans named Sharol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,029 people named Sharol (1,019 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 5,469 babies since 1880, Sharol is the third most given (19% 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 Sharol
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 Sharol and names like it
- Compare Sharol and SharylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharol peaked in 1949.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharol since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Sharol.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharol alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.