Sharna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharna has been given to 412 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1972, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Sharna, 2006
1 in 791,000
Sharna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sharna?
Sharna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 791,000
- 5 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharnas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharna was born before 1975 — so the typical Sharna is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 34.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 412
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (142).
Is Sharna 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 1972 (22)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sharna
Sharna is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 40.9% against Sharna's 0.02%.
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.
Sharna around the world
Where Sharna 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 & Wales1996–2020#5,493in 2020
- South Australia1951–2008#415in 2008
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.
Sharna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sharna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.