Sharen
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharen has been given to 3,782 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 209 recorded.
Babies named Sharen, 2013
1 in 304,000
Sharen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sharen?
Sharen 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 304,000
- 12 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,599 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharen 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 210,599 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharen was born before 1951 — so the typical Sharen is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,075
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (1,580).
Is Sharen 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 (209)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.0% average annual change
Spellings of Sharen
Sharen is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 49.7% against Sharen's 0.19%.
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 Sharen is used
Across 1910–2025, Sharen was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 70,362 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 in 33,333
- 2Kansas1 in 33,333
- 3Ohio1 in 33,333
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 5California1 in 50,000
- 6Illinois1 in 50,000
- 7Michigan1 in 50,000
- 8Minnesota1 in 50,000
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. Sharen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sharen around the world
Where Sharen 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.
- Scotland1980–1980#539in 1980
- France2003–2003#4,505in 2003
- South Australia1944–1973#695in 1973
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sharen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Sharen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sharen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Sharen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.