Sharla
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 241 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,444since 1932
Sharla over time
Rank among girls' names. Sharla has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,938 | 40 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 |
| 1990 | #1,892 | 74 |
| 1989 | #2,371 | 49 |
| 1988 | #2,011 | 59 |
| 1987 | #1,647 | 74 |
| 1986 | #1,602 | 74 |
| 1985 | #1,424 | 89 |
| 1984 | #1,205 | 108 |
| 1983 | #1,295 | 94 |
| 1982 | #1,138 | 123 |
| 1981 | #1,181 | 112 |
| 1980 | #1,097 | 126 |
| 1979 | #1,120 | 120 |
| 1978 | #913 | 155 |
| 1977 | #987 | 138 |
| 1976 | #811 | 171 |
| 1975 | #778 | 181 |
| 1974 | #730 | 195 |
| 1973 | #729 | 193 |
| 1972 | #635 | 241 |
| 1971 | #682 | 225 |
| 1970 | #748 | 197 |
| 1969 | #814 | 159 |
| 1968 | #707 | 190 |
| 1967 | #763 | 166 |
| 1966 | #740 | 178 |
| 1965 | #700 | 198 |
| 1964 | #797 | 171 |
| 1963 | #823 | 160 |
| 1962 | #794 | 172 |
| 1961 | #840 | 158 |
| 1960 | #904 | 136 |
| 1959 | #821 | 156 |
| 1958 | #955 | 117 |
| 1957 | #910 | 125 |
| 1956 | #1,016 | 101 |
| 1955 | #1,130 | 78 |
| 1954 | #1,020 | 92 |
| 1953 | #981 | 95 |
| 1952 | #1,119 | 71 |
| 1951 | #1,133 | 68 |
| 1950 | #1,109 | 69 |
| 1949 | #1,210 | 56 |
| 1948 | #1,298 | 50 |
| 1947 | #1,318 | 48 |
| 1946 | #1,376 | 40 |
| 1945 | #1,213 | 43 |
| 1944 | #1,578 | 27 |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 |
| 1942 | #1,592 | 27 |
| 1941 | #1,384 | 31 |
| 1940 | #1,845 | 19 |
| 1939 | #1,731 | 20 |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #2,926 | 9 |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sharla! It came in at #3,568, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2018, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Sharla is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#300 · 1 in 1,756
- Iowa#303 · 1 in 2,829
- New Mexico#346 · 1 in 2,196
- Oklahoma#465 · 1 in 4,459
- Texas#583 · 1 in 5,741
Best ever in a state: #156 in Montana, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #300 | 6 | 1 in 1,756 |
| Iowa | #303 | 10 | 1 in 2,829 |
| New Mexico | #346 | 5 | 1 in 2,196 |
| Oklahoma | #465 | 5 | 1 in 4,459 |
| Texas | #583 | 20 | 1 in 5,741 |
| Missouri | #606 | 5 | 1 in 8,957 |
| California | #914 | 10 | 1 in 15,642 |
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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 Sharla
- 2,474 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,917)
- 1,225 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #10,917)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 1953 (#1,119 → #981)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1979 (#913 → #1,120)
- Debuted 1932
- Peaked 1972 at #635 (241 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1957–1978
- Highest: 1 in 6,312 girls born in 1972 were named Sharla (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.2% of all girls named Sharla (1,816) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 80 | #1,731 (1939) | #3,008 |
| 1940s | 363 | #1,210 (1949) | #1,465 |
| 1950s | 972 | #821 (1959) | #1,019 |
| 1960s | 1,688 | #700 (1965) | #788 |
| 1970s | 1,816 | #635 (1972) | #813 |
| 1980s | 908 | #1,097 (1980) | #1,497 |
| 1990s | 329 | #1,892 (1990) | #4,119 |
| 2000s | 152 | #6,323 (2007) | #7,706 |
| 2010s | 92 | #7,513 (2010) | #10,436 |
| 2020s | 44 | #8,443 (2024) | #10,804 |
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.
Sharla in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 19,878 of them was named Sharla, which outranked 85.3% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,012Gerry102
- #1,012Sanjuanita102
- #1,012Virgie102
- #1,016Sharla101
- #1,016Beckie101
- #1,016Eartha101
- #1,016Hollie101
- #1,023Collette100
- #1,023Donnie100
- #1,023Erlinda100
Tied with 6 names at #1,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.