Sharla

#11,777 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Charla

Sharla has been given to 6,444 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #11,777 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 241 recorded.

Babies named Sharla, 2025

1 in 414,000

Sharla over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharla means

Sharla is a variant of Charla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharla is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɑɹ.lə/ and /ˈʃɑː.lə/ for Sharla.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sharla → Charla → Charles. The family’s meaning is “free man”, recorded in English with the source elements karilaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,444 girls were recorded with the name Sharla between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 241 in 1972; its best national rank was #637 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,266 in 2020 to #11,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,696 in 2015 to #11,777 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sharla?

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: #11,777; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sharla 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharla was born before 1970 — so the typical Sharla is around 55 today.

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.2%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 6,001; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (1,816).

Is Sharla 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: −2,910; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,489; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −81; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.89×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 3.3%; Peak was 1972 (241)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #637; 1972

Spellings of Sharla

Sharla is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 33.6% against Sharla's 0.30%.

Sharon33.6%723,024
Sara20.2%436,193
Sheila11.1%238,774
Carla7.0%150,390
Karla4.2%91,586
Shawna2.1%45,531
Darla2.0%43,667
Shari1.9%40,927

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 Sharla is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharla was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 39,225 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Oklahoma1 in 7,143
2Hawaii1 in 7,692
3Texas1 in 10,000
4Kansas1 in 11,111
5Utah1 in 11,111
6Idaho1 in 20,000
7New Mexico1 in 20,000
8Iowa1 in 25,000

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. Sharla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharla around the world

Where Sharla 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
1997–2010
#2,843
in 2010
Canada
1991–2009
#2,869
in 2009
South Australia
1980–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sharla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,489
Best rank ever: #637; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 241 that year
First recorded: 1932
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 6,444
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Sharla

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

Shasta Shanae Shaina Shaila Shaniya Shayne Shaylee Shania Shayna Shanel Shakira Shara Shanell Shamya Shani Shanice Shantel Shanti Shante Shaelyn Sharyn Shanda Shanaya Shauna

Names with a curve like Sharla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sharla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Janeen Carin Cary Trena Melonie Charisse Caryn Yolonda Linette Marti Lavonda Danita

Sibling names for Sharla

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

For a sister

Michell Melonie Nakia Kesha Janel Lucretia Jeana Karie

For a brother

Edwardo Tracey Kelley Thad Jerod Berry Deron Toney

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