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Sharyl

Girls' name

Variant of Cheryl

Sharyl has been given to 2,631 babies in the U.S. since 1937. 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 1961, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Sharyl, 1998

1 in 735,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharyl: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cheryl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharyl means

Sharyl is a variant of Cheryl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharyl is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɛɹ.əl/ for Sharyl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cheryl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,631 girls were recorded with the name Sharyl between 1937 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 131 in 1961; its best national rank was #934 in 1947.

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 Sharyl?

Sharyl 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 Sharyl 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 Sharyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharyls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharyl was born before 1959 — so the typical Sharyl is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,020
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (944).

Is Sharyl 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (131)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#934
1947

Spellings of Sharyl

Sharyl is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 51.7% against Sharyl's 0.19%.

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 Sharyl is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharyl was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 82,588 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 33,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Sharyl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Sharyl

People whose public names include Sharyl, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sharyl 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
#934
1947
Peak year
1961
131 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
2,631
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharyl

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

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Names with a curve like Sharyl

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sharyl, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sharyl

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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