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Sharmin

Girls' name

Shame, modesty

Sharmin has been given to 363 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1969, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Sharmin, 2002

1 in 374,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharmin: meaning, origin, and history

Shame, modesty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharmin means

Sharmin means “shame, modesty”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharmin is used in Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 363 girls were recorded with the name Sharmin between 1952 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1969; its best national rank was #2,829 in 1969.

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 Sharmin?

Sharmin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 374,000
10 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
259,049 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharmin 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 2002 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 259,049 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharmin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharmins were born

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

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
363
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Sharmin 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 1969 (23)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,829
1969

Spellings of Sharmin

Sharmin is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 88.9% against Sharmin'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.

Where Sharmin is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharmin was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 625,320 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. Sharmin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharmin around the world

Where Sharmin 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
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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.

Sharmin 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
#2,829
1969
Peak year
1969
23 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
363
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharmin

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

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Sibling names for Sharmin

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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