Sharolyn
Sharolyn was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 1,367 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Sharolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharolyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,720, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1962, the peak
Sharolyn peaked in 1962, when 53 girls were given it, #1,552 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #14,720 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,591 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,579 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,508 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,861 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,154 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,049 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,644 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,449 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,482 | 7.7 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 12 | #5,760 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,839 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,848 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,095 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,312 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,734 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,121 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,095 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,296 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,451 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,510 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,531 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,769 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,203 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,937 | 23.8 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,973 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,181 | 17.7 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,454 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,400 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,809 | 21.8 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,552 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,108 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,007 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,848 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,786 | 18.9 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,921 | 16.1 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,476 | 25.9 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,054 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,938 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,007 | 14.4 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,853 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,730 | 17.8 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,619 | 19.8 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,434 | 24.5 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,544 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,717 | 18.1 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,315 | 28.0 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,285 | 29.8 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,693 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,440 | 24.4 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,528 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,743 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,839 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,032 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,100 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,746 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,105 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,385 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,869 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharolyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharolyn, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,367 Americans ever recorded as Sharolyn. The median Sharolyn alive today is 64 years old; half are between 56 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,208 people named Sharolyn (1,204 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 105 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 529 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 323 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,380 babies since 1880, Sharolyn is the third most given (25% 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 Sharolyn
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 Sharolyn and names like it
- Compare Sharolyn and SharilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSharolyn peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sharolyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharolyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.