Shara

Where Shara comes from

Shara hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1927
    First appearance
    #4,805 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #718
    232 babies named Shara — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1987
    Shara Marche born
    Australian road cyclist
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,249.
  5. 1988
    Shara Proctor born
    Anguillan long jumper
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shara Proctor · Anguillan long jumper, born 1988
  • Shara Marche · Australian road cyclist, born 1987
  • Shara Nova · American musician, born 1974
  • Shara Hubrich · German karateka, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.