Sharyn
Sharyn was last recorded in 2014, when 8 babies were given it; 7,243 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,180 Americans named Sharyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 61 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sharyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sharyn is “a female given name, variant of Sharon.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sharyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,896, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
919 babies in 1947, the peak
Sharyn peaked in 1947, when 919 girls were given it, #247 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,896 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,959 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,281 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,899 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,797 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,568 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,115 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,038 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,489 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 11 | #8,478 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,990 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,597 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,431 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,358 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,405 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,240 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,625 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,563 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,962 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,241 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,742 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,551 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,203 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,957 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,057 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,973 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,431 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 104 | #1,132 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 109 | #1,051 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,089 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 107 | #988 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,048 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 126 | #900 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,082 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 116 | #992 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 110 | #1,030 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,173 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,263 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 107 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 74 | #1,236 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 99 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 108 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 88 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 111 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 124 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 175 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 243 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 340 | #430 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 601 | #316 | 0.35 |
| 1947 | 919 | #247 | 0.52 |
| 1946 | 680 | #280 | 0.43 |
| 1945 | 768 | #241 | 0.59 |
| 1944 | 269 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 131 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 72 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 78 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,549 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,878 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharyn, and how old are they?
5,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 7,243 Americans ever recorded as Sharyn. The median Sharyn alive today is 76 years old; half are between 61 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 6,342 people named Sharyn (6,338 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 795 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,010 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 272 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 78 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
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 Sharyn born?
The states with the most babies named Sharyn are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 788 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 770 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 548 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 431 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 421 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 314 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 313 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 175 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 118 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Sharyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sharyn is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1931 it was given 1.9 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 Sharyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 757,809 babies since 1880, Sharyn is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 184 babies recorded by SSA was a Sharyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sharyn
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 Sharyn and names like it
- Compare Sharyn and SharonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSharyn peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Sharyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sharyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.