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Sharmila

Girls' name

Protection, comfort, joy

Sharmila has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 20 recorded.

Babies named Sharmila, 1998

1 in 735,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharmila: meaning, origin, and history

Protection, comfort, joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharmila means

Sharmila means “protection, comfort, joy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharmila is used in Tamil, Marathi and Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 180 girls were recorded with the name Sharmila between 1967 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,733 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 Sharmila?

Sharmila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only
1 in 353,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharmila 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 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharmila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharmilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharmila was born before 1977 — so the typical Sharmila is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
60.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
180
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 60.6% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Sharmila 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 1977 (20)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,733
1977

Spellings of Sharmila

Sharmila is not the most common spelling — Sharla is, with 24.2% against Sharmila's 0.68%.

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 Sharmila is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharmila was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Sharmila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharmila around the world

Where Sharmila 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
    #4,688
    in 2010
  • France
    1979–2004
    #3,994
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sharmila 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
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Best rank ever
#3,733
1977
Peak year
1977
20 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
180
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharmila

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

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Sibling names for Sharmila

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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