Sharalyn

Girls' name

Variant of Cherilyn

Sharalyn has been given to 386 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1940, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Sharalyn, 1993

1 in 754,000

Sharalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cherilyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharalyn means

Sharalyn is a variant of Cherilyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharalyn is used in English (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cherilyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 386 girls were recorded with the name Sharalyn between 1933 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1940; its best national rank was #1,677 in 1940.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sharalyn?

Sharalyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 362,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sharalyn 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharalyn was born before 1959 — so the typical Sharalyn is around 66 today.

Median birth year: 1959; About 66 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 287; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Sharalyn 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1940 (23)
Years since peak: 85; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,677; 1940

Spellings of Sharalyn

Sharalyn is not the most common spelling — Sherlyn is, with 17.6% against Sharalyn's 0.76%.

Sherlyn17.6%8,954
Sharyn14.3%7,243
Sherilyn7.7%3,930
Shaelyn6.9%3,494
Shaylyn4.2%2,109
Shalyn3.9%1,992
Harlyn3.6%1,843
Charlyn3.6%1,829

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 Sharalyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharalyn was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 206,208 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 100,000
2Nebraska1 in —

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. Sharalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharalyn around the world

Where Sharalyn 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.

South Australia
1953–1978
#626
in 1978

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sharalyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,677; 1940
Peak year: 1940; 23 that year
First recorded: 1933
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 386
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sharalyn

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

Shaylyn Sharolyn Shailyn Sharilyn Shaelyn Sharlyn Shallyn Sharanya Shailynn Shariyah Shandalyn Shandolyn Shaliyah Shamiyah Shalyn Shastelyn Shanyla Shaindel Shaddai Sharaya Shaylene Shayana Shanzay Shalaya

Sibling names for Sharalyn

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

For a sister

Nedra Toby Annetta Jerilyn Carolynn Arleen Georgianna Judie

For a brother

Errol Jerold Gail Rayford Ned Carol Wendell Jerald

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