Sharelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharelle has been given to 775 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1989, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Sharelle, 2013
1 in 456,000
Sharelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sharelle?
Sharelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 456,000
- 8 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 219,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 315,898 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 315,898 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharelle was born before 1987 — so the typical Sharelle is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 737
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (353).
Is Sharelle 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 1989 (52)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sharelle
Sharelle is not the most common spelling — Chanelle is, with 15.9% against Sharelle's 2.4%.
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 Sharelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Sharelle was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 769,194 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 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. Sharelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sharelle around the world
Where Sharelle 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 & Wales1997–2012#5,876in 2012
- Scotland1980–1980#539in 1980
- South Australia1963–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sharelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.