Sharan
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharan has been given to 1,248 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1947, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Sharan, 2016
1 in 734,000
Sharan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sharan over time
In 2025, Sharan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sharan?
Sharan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharan was born before 1954 — so the typical Sharan is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 769
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (387).
Is Sharan 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 1947 (65)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Spellings of Sharan
Sharan is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 43.5% against Sharan's 0.05%.
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 Sharan is used
Across 1910–2025, Sharan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 408,732 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 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. Sharan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sharan around the world
Where Sharan 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 & Wales2000–2017#3,583in 2017
- Scotland1983–1983#512in 1983
- Ireland1967–1968#357in 1968
- Canada2004–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1946–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Sharan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sharan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.