Shari

Where Shari comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Shari.

  • Vowel-ended
Shari through the years
  1. 1927
    First appearance
    #3,284 among girls with 9 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Shari Arison born
    American-Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist, billionaire heiress
  3. 1961
    Peak, #142
    3,117 babies named Shari, the most in any year.
  4. 1964
    Shari Headley born
    American actress
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #213.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sharon, variant of Sherry.
Namesakes
  • Shari Arison · American-Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist, billionaire heiress, born 1957
  • Shari Headley · American actress, born 1964
  • Shari Lewis · American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and television show host, 1933–1998
  • Shari Belafonte · American actress, born 1954
  • Shari Redstone · American businesswoman, born 1954

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.