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Sharyn

Girls' name

The Sharon plain, through Sharon

Sharyn has been given to 7,243 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1947, with 919 recorded.

Babies named Sharyn, 2014

1 in 463,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharyn: meaning, origin, and history

The Sharon plain, through Sharon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharyn means

Sharyn belongs to the name family reached through Sharyn → Sharon. Its meaning is “the Sharon plain”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sharyn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sharon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,243 girls were recorded with the name Sharyn between 1931 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 919 in 1947; its best national rank was #241 in 1945.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sharyn?

Sharyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
321,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharyn 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 2014 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 321,172 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharyn was born before 1948 — so the typical Sharyn is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,194
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1940s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (3,899).

Is Sharyn 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 1947 (919)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#241
1945

Spellings of Sharyn

Sharyn is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 66.5% against Sharyn's 0.67%.

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 Sharyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharyn was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 29,292 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 14,286
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 16,667
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 16,667
  6. 6New York1 in 16,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 16,667
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 20,000

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

Sharyn around the world

Where Sharyn 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.

  • Scotland
    1977–1984
    #547
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1945–2001
    #711
    in 2001
  • New South Wales
    1962–1962
    #100
    in 1962

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sharyn

People whose public names include Sharyn, 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.

Sharyn 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
#241
1945
Peak year
1947
919 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
7,243
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharyn

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

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Names with a curve like Sharyn

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

JudieCarolannLaraineRuthannSaundraSuellenJudiDianGlyndaHedySherrillSherron

Sibling names for Sharyn

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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