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Shara

#14,676 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shara has been given to 4,950 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #14,676 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 232 recorded.

Babies named Shara, 2025

1 in 553,000

Shara over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shara: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shara means

Shara is a given name.

The naming story behind Shara

Wikidata records Shara as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q138387454, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,945 girls were recorded with the name Shara between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 232 in 1979; its best national rank was #719 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,146 in 2020 to #14,676 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,048 in 2015 to #14,676 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Shara between 1975 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1975; its best national rank was #6,198 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,676
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shara was born before 1980 — so the typical Shara is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,737
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (1,626).

Is Shara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,635
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,470
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,628
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.6%
Peak was 1979 (232)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#719
1979

Spellings of Shara

Shara is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 27.9% against Shara's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shara is used

Across 1910–2025, Shara was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 69,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Utah1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shara around the world

Where Shara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1989–2025
    #5,863
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1977–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shara

People whose public names include Shara, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,676
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,470
Best rank ever
#719
1979
Peak year
1979
232 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,945
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,198
1975
Peak year
1975
5 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShaniShamaraShataraShakaraShayeShastaShaeSharlaShanaeShailaShayShayneShanelShanellShayaShaneShamyaKyaraShainaShacaraShaunShantiKlaraShai

Names with a curve like Shara

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shara, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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