Sherah

Girls' name

Variant of Sheerah

Sherah has been given to 193 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1981, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sherah, 1998

1 in 460,000

Sherah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sheerah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherah means

Sherah is a variant of Sheerah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sherah is used in Biblical.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sheerah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 193 girls were recorded with the name Sherah between 1973 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,145 in 1981.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sherah?

Sherah 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 460,000; 8 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only: 1 in 221,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 318,605 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sherah 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 318,605 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherah was born before 1983 — so the typical Sherah is around 42 today.

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 61.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 95.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 193; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Sherah 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1981 (19)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,145; 1981

Spellings of Sherah

Sherah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 66.7% against Sherah's 0.01%.

Sarah66.7%1,098,498
Sherry14.0%229,937
Sherri5.1%83,667
Sheryl4.8%78,826
Sheri3.7%60,464
Selah0.92%15,187
Sheree0.82%13,554
Shea0.76%12,565

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 Sherah is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Sherah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sherah 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: #4,145; 1981
Peak year: 1981; 19 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1998
All-time count: 193
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sherah

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

Sheyli Sheylin Shelsy Sheina Sheilyn Sheily Sheyna Sairah Aairah Sheva Kairah Zarrah Elorah Shenay Sherea Kyarah Naarah Sheray Saarah Noorah Shenea Shevy Anorah Shemia

Sibling names for Sherah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kandi Fawn Joi Jessi Jenelle Charissa Latrice Eboni

For a brother

Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell

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