Sharlie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharlie has been given to 342 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1933, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Sharlie, 2016
1 in 734,000
Sharlie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sharlie?
Sharlie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharlie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharlies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharlie was born before 1980 — so the typical Sharlie is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 263
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Sharlie 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1933 (20)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.4% average annual change
Spellings of Sharlie
Sharlie is not the most common spelling — Sallie is, with 11.9% against Sharlie's 0.08%.
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.
Sharlie around the world
Where Sharlie 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 & Wales2001–2001#3,262in 2001
- France2008–2024#6,002in 2024
- Canada1994–2021#3,151in 2021
- South Australia1970–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sharlie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharlie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharlie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.