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Sharia

Girls' name

Divine law, noble law

Sharia has been given to 653 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1977, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Sharia, 2020

1 in 668,000

Sharia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharia: meaning, origin, and history

Divine law, noble law

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharia means

Sharia means “divine law, noble law”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharia is used in Arabic (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃa.ˈriː.ʕa/ for Sharia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 653 girls were recorded with the name Sharia between 1950 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,650 in 1977.

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.

How common is Sharia?

Sharia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharia 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharia was born before 1988 — so the typical Sharia is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
653
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Sharia 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (32)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,650
1977

Spellings of Sharia

Sharia is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 28.9% against Sharia's 0.03%.

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 Sharia is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharia was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,483,881 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Sharia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharia around the world

Where Sharia 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 & Wales
    2001–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sharia 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
#2,650
1977
Peak year
1977
32 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
653
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharia

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

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Sibling names for Sharia

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

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