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Sharad

Boys' name

Autumn

Sharad has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sharad, 2006

1 in 495,000

Sharad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharad: meaning, origin, and history

Autumn

Sanskrit

What Sharad means

Sharad means “autumn”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharad is used in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Sharad is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 boys were recorded with the name Sharad between 1969 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,884 in 1969.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sharad?

Sharad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 495,000
8 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 257,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
342,777 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 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 342,777 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharad was born before 1983 — so the typical Sharad is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Sharad 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (8)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,884
1969

Spellings of Sharad

Sharad is not the most common spelling — Shamar is, with 15.2% against Sharad's 0.26%.

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.

Sharad around the world

Where Sharad 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
    2002–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sharad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,884
1969
Peak year
1982
8 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharad

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

ShazilShalevShahirShabsiShakaiShahemSharvaSharanShanayShamsSharvinShahramShaaravShaddaiShailenShammahShahanShahinSharbelShariqShahbazShawnnShayonShawna

Sibling names for Sharad

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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