Sharri
Sharri was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 1,299 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Sharri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 55 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharri?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,738, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1962, the peak
Sharri peaked in 1962, when 88 girls were given it, #1,175 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,738 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,969 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,862 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,012 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,635 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,278 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,711 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,380 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,979 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,168 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 12 | #5,761 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,791 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,236 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,192 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,978 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,885 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,585 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,796 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,910 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,286 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,815 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,439 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,902 | 27.6 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,005 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,974 | 24.3 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,604 | 31.7 |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,556 | 32.1 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,643 | 27.8 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,458 | 32.9 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,290 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,339 | 35.8 |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,175 | 44.7 |
| 1961 | 78 | #1,256 | 38.6 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,555 | 25.7 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,757 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,812 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,107 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,310 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,949 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,679 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,418 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,022 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,676 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,113 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,710 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,563 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,291 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,889 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,720 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,642 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,619 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,570 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,900 | 5.8 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,279 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,835 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharri, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,299 Americans ever recorded as Sharri. The median Sharri alive today is 61 years old; half are between 55 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,156 people named Sharri (1,150 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 518 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 454 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 116 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
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).
How common is the spelling Sharri?
Sharri is a less common spelling of Shari: SSA has recorded 1,299 Sharri and 40,973 Shari since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,062 babies since 1880, Sharri is the fifth most given (2.3% 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 Sharri
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 Sharri and names like it
- Compare Sharri and ShariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSharri peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharri since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sharri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.