Sharlene

Where Sharlene comes from

The dictionaries list Sharlene as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Charlene — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,594 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1949
    Peak, #461
    302 babies named Sharlene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,058.
  4. 1989
    Sharlene born
    Dominican singer, actress, musician and songwriter
  5. 1998
    Sharlene Mawdsley born
    Irish sprinter
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Charlene.
Namesakes
  • Sharlene · Dominican singer, actress, musician and songwriter, born 1989
  • Sharlene Mawdsley · Irish sprinter, born 1998
  • Sharlene San Pedro · Filipino actress and vlogger, born 1999
  • Sharlene Royer · Canadian actress, born 1953

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.