Shara
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #5,464
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 232 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,945since 1927
Shara over time
Rank among girls' names. Shara has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,289 | 56 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,367 | 112 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,334 | 107 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,249 | 113 | — | |
| 1986 | #997 | 155 | — | |
| 1985 | #948 | 164 | — | |
| 1984 | #821 | 191 | — | |
| 1983 | #838 | 183 | — | |
| 1982 | #780 | 210 | — | |
| 1981 | #858 | 181 | — | |
| 1980 | #783 | 210 | — | |
| 1979 | #718 | 232 | — | |
| 1978 | #858 | 171 | — | |
| 1977 | #933 | 149 | — | |
| 1976 | #999 | 126 | — | |
| 1975 | #994 | 123 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,039 | 115 | — | |
| 1973 | #941 | 129 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,111 | 100 | — | |
| 1971 | #988 | 127 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,108 | 106 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,208 | 85 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,301 | 72 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,299 | 70 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,273 | 72 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,448 | 58 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,383 | 64 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,023 | 25 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,701 | 32 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,955 | 24 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,664 | 26 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shara! It came in at #4,805, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shara is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#450 · 1 in 3,888
- Oregon#455 · 1 in 3,127
- Maryland#553 · 1 in 4,823
- Washington#659 · 1 in 5,528
- Virginia#681 · 1 in 6,590
Best ever in a state: #265 in Idaho, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #450 | 9 | 1 in 3,888 |
| Oregon | #455 | 5 | 1 in 3,127 |
| Maryland | #553 | 5 | 1 in 4,823 |
| Washington | #659 | 5 | 1 in 5,528 |
| Virginia | #681 | 5 | 1 in 6,590 |
| Texas | #704 | 23 | 1 in 5,798 |
| Florida | #949 | 7 | 1 in 9,322 |
| New York | #979 | 11 | 1 in 9,717 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,032 | 5 | 1 in 13,828 |
| California | #1,290 | 14 | 1 in 14,447 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shara
- 2,085 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #13,208)
- 1,880 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #13,208)
- 3,727 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 170 spots in 1973 (#1,111 → #941)
- Biggest drop: 252 spots in 1987 (#997 → #1,249)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1979 at #718 (232 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1975–1986
- Highest: 1 in 6,919 girls born in 1979 were named Shara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Shara (1,626) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,805 (1927) | #4,805 |
| 1930s | 22 | #2,300 (1939) | #2,620 |
| 1940s | 181 | #1,610 (1941) | #2,265 |
| 1950s | 253 | #1,701 (1951) | #2,155 |
| 1960s | 602 | #1,208 (1969) | #1,482 |
| 1970s | 1,378 | #718 (1979) | #969 |
| 1980s | 1,626 | #780 (1982) | #998 |
| 1990s | 525 | #1,642 (1991) | #2,831 |
| 2000s | 234 | #3,417 (2001) | #5,698 |
| 2010s | 86 | #7,880 (2010) | #10,992 |
| 2020s | 33 | #9,562 (2021) | #13,079 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shara in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 10,493 of them was named Shara, which outranked 92.4% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.