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Shariah

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sharia

Shariah has been given to 965 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2009, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Shariah, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shariah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sharia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shariah means

Shariah is a alternate transcription of Sharia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shariah is used in Arabic (Rare).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shariah → Sharia. The family’s meaning is “divine law, noble law”, recorded in the naming reference for Sharia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sharia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 965 girls were recorded with the name Shariah between 1982 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,310 in 2005.

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 Shariah?

Shariah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shariah 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shariahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shariah was born before 2006 — so the typical Shariah is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
965
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (418).

Is Shariah 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 2009 (49)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,310
2005

Spellings of Shariah

Shariah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 79.0% against Shariah's 0.07%.

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 Shariah is used

Across 1910–2025, Shariah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 688,985 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Shariah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shariah around the world

Where Shariah 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
    1997–2014
    #4,684
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #871
    in 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.

Shariah 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
#3,310
2005
Peak year
2009
49 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
965
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shariah

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

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Sibling names for Shariah

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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