Sharyl
Sharyl was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 2,631 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Sharyl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 60 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharyl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sharyl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,183, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
131 babies in 1961, the peak
Sharyl peaked in 1961, when 131 girls were given it, #946 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,183 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,217 | 4.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,651 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,082 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,712 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,661 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,607 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,484 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,621 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,840 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 13 | #5,521 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,297 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,589 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,886 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,886 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,136 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,912 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,408 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,898 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,344 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,995 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,947 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,383 | 41.5 |
| 1968 | 62 | #1,449 | 37.8 |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,334 | 41.2 |
| 1966 | 96 | #1,076 | 56.7 |
| 1965 | 104 | #1,024 | 58.9 |
| 1964 | 101 | #1,090 | 53.3 |
| 1963 | 114 | #1,001 | 59.1 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,136 | 47.3 |
| 1961 | 131 | #946 | 64.9 |
| 1960 | 105 | #1,050 | 51.9 |
| 1959 | 77 | #1,222 | 38.1 |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,101 | 45.7 |
| 1957 | 79 | #1,191 | 38.6 |
| 1956 | 80 | #1,167 | 39.8 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,287 | 31.7 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,457 | 24.7 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,151 | 37.7 |
| 1952 | 69 | #1,144 | 37.2 |
| 1951 | 80 | #1,043 | 44.4 |
| 1950 | 72 | #1,088 | 42.0 |
| 1949 | 79 | #1,013 | 46.2 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,110 | 38.3 |
| 1947 | 91 | #934 | 51.3 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,097 | 38.8 |
| 1945 | 67 | #940 | 51.3 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,027 | 44.5 |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,017 | 44.4 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,226 | 31.8 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,084 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,737 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,678 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,208 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,395 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharyl 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 Sharyl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharyl, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,631 Americans ever recorded as Sharyl. The median Sharyl alive today is 65 years old; half are between 60 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,349 people named Sharyl (2,345 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,245 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 | 157 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 582 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| 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).
Where are babies named Sharyl born?
The states with the most babies named Sharyl are California, Michigan and Minnesota, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 301 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 155 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 99 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 90 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 82 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 57 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Washington | 48 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kansas | 33 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Sharyl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharyl is most over-represented in California: since 1937 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Sharyl 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,469 babies since 1880, Sharyl is the most given (48% 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 Sharyl
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 Sharyl and names like it
- Compare Sharyl and SharellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSharyl peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharyl since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Sharyl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharyl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.