Sharlyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharlyne has been given to 80 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1946, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Sharlyne, 2009
1 in 424,000
Sharlyne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sharlyne?
Sharlyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 424,000
- 9 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 204,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 294,228 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharlyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 294,228 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharlyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharlynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharlyne was born before 1964 — so the typical Sharlyne is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 23.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 64
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Sharlyne 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1946 (11)
- Years since peak
- 79
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sharlyne
Sharlyne is not the most common spelling — Charlene is, with 62.9% against Sharlyne's 0.04%.
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.
Sharlyne around the world
Where Sharlyne 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.
- France2002–2021#7,494in 2021
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sharlyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharlyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharlyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.