Sharyn — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sharyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,243 babies named Sharyn between 1931 and 2014, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 919 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharyn performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 3,899 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Sharyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 788 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharyn in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sharyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,243 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.