Sharry
Sharry was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 953 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharry?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,081, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1949, the peak
Sharry peaked in 1949, when 39 girls were given it, #1,484 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #13,081 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,522 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,886 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,645 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,015 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,297 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,141 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,612 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,314 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,960 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | #5,529 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,911 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,693 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,315 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,684 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,632 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,092 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,740 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,473 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,424 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,023 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,911 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,401 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,124 | 16.6 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,725 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,734 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,234 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,504 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,110 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,060 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,757 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,328 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,939 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,351 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,067 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,237 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,864 | 15.8 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,484 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,639 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,784 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,613 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,049 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,792 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,064 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,623 | 20.0 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,600 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,927 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,730 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,906 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,394 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharry 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 Sharry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharry, and how old are they?
An estimated 737 Americans named Sharry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 57 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 814 people named Sharry (808 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 804 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
How common is the spelling Sharry?
Sharry is a less common spelling of Shari: SSA has recorded 953 Sharry and 40,973 Shari since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,062 babies since 1880, Sharry is the seventh most given (1.7% 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 Sharry
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 Sharry and names like it
- Compare Sharry and ShariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharry peaked in 1949.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharry since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Sharry.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharry alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.