Sharif
Last seen for girls in 1970 at #7,995 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 80 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,685since 1963
Sharif over time
Rank among boys' names. Sharif has never cracked the top 900 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,241 | 18 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,362 | 23 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,003 | 26 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,918 | 19 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,060 | 14 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,179 | 24 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,964 | 25 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,110 | 24 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,072 | 37 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,105 | 37 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,057 | 38 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,793 | 27 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,744 | 42 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,493 | 45 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,599 | 41 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,545 | 40 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,195 | 48 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,800 | 62 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,875 | 56 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,824 | 54 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,486 | 71 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,552 | 64 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,448 | 68 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,434 | 67 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,400 | 69 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,382 | 67 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,297 | 75 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,216 | 81 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,281 | 72 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,395 | 56 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,379 | 53 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,457 | 47 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,242 | 59 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,096 | 67 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,190 | 58 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,096 | 69 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,014 | 80 | |
| 1980 | — | #996 | 82 | |
| 1979 | — | #984 | 81 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,099 | 63 | |
| 1977 | — | #954 | 80 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,030 | 65 | |
| 1975 | — | #961 | 73 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,007 | 66 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,354 | 38 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,745 | 26 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #2,621 | 13 |
| 1969 | — | #1,914 | 19 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sharif! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sharif is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#414 · 1 in 4,125
- New Jersey#462 · 1 in 4,372
- New York#834 · 1 in 9,575
- California#1,407 · 1 in 27,287
Best ever in a state: #298 in New Jersey, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #414 | 16 | 1 in 4,125 |
| New Jersey | #462 | 11 | 1 in 4,372 |
| New York | #834 | 12 | 1 in 9,575 |
| California | #1,407 | 9 | 1 in 27,287 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Sharif
- 4,473 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #9,714)
- 5,439 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #9,714)
- 5,535 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 115 spots in 1979 (#1,099 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 1978 (#954 → #1,099)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1977 at #954 (80 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1979–1980
- Highest: 1 in 20,540 boys born in 1977 were named Sharif (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.3% of all boys named Sharif (679) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 41 | #1,914 (1969) | #2,957 |
| 1970s | 538 | #954 (1977) | #1,323 |
| 1980s | 643 | #996 (1980) | #1,215 |
| 1990s | 679 | #1,216 (1990) | #1,468 |
| 2000s | 436 | #1,800 (2001) | #2,621 |
| 2010s | 249 | #3,072 (2010) | #4,191 |
| 2020s | 99 | #4,275 (2020) | #5,997 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sharif in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 26,551 of them was named Sharif, which outranked 86.3% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,480Devion72
- #1,480Gannon72
- #1,480Shivam72
- #1,486Sharif71
- #1,486Armond71
- #1,486Benjamen71
- #1,486Camilo71
- #1,499Anson70
- #1,499Davonta70
- #1,499Daylan70
Tied with 12 names at #1,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.