Sharaya
#11,775 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharaya has been given to 470 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #11,775 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Sharaya, 2025
1 in 414,000
Sharaya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sharaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,775
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharaya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharaya was born before 1994 — so the typical Sharaya is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 35.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 470
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (168).
Is Sharaya 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
- +5,372
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,940
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 24.2%
- Peak was 1991 (33)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Sharaya
Sharaya is not the most common spelling — Sharyn is, with 7.3% against Sharaya's 0.47%.
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 Sharaya is used
Across 1910–2025, Sharaya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,018,542 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Sharaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sharaya around the world
Where Sharaya 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 & Wales2003–2022#5,670in 2022
- South Australia1986–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sharaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.