Sharman
Last seen for girls in 1983 at #8,047 · Last seen for boys in 1976 at #5,587
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1950 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,014since 1947
Sharman over time
Rank among girls' names. Sharman 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
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| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
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| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
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| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,296 | 31 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,126 | 32 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,039 | 33 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,519 | 23 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,209 | 26 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,754 | 38 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,738 | 37 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,739 | 35 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,473 | 44 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,195 | 63 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,063 | 76 | — | |
| 1950 | #668 | 160 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #771 | 126 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,708 | 30 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sharman! It came in at #4,007, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Sharman is popular in 1949
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#253 · 1 in 1,879
- Iowa#353 · 1 in 4,548
- Washington#393 · 1 in 4,187
- New York#505 · 1 in 7,469
- Michigan#563 · 1 in 10,098
Best ever in a state: #253 in Oregon, 1949.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #253 | 8 | 1 in 1,879 |
| Iowa | #353 | 6 | 1 in 4,548 |
| Washington | #393 | 6 | 1 in 4,187 |
| New York | #505 | 19 | 1 in 7,469 |
| Michigan | #563 | 7 | 1 in 10,098 |
| Pennsylvania | #654 | 7 | 1 in 14,672 |
| Ohio | #729 | 5 | 1 in 17,343 |
| Texas | #753 | 9 | 1 in 10,525 |
| Illinois | #779 | 5 | 1 in 17,162 |
| California | #900 | 7 | 1 in 16,174 |
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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 Sharman
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1983
- Biggest jump: 937 spots in 1949 (#1,708 → #771)
- Biggest drop: 395 spots in 1951 (#668 → #1,063)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1950 at #668 (160 births)
- Births halved by 1951, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1949–1950
- Highest: 1 in 10,707 girls born in 1950 were named Sharman (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 238,658 girls born in 1983 (0.00%)
- 50.8% of all girls named Sharman (515) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 164 | #771 (1949) | #2,162 |
| 1950s | 515 | #668 (1950) | #1,798 |
| 1960s | 183 | #2,039 (1967) | #3,391 |
| 1970s | 138 | #2,450 (1970) | #5,014 |
| 1980s | 14 | #8,047 (1983) | #8,113 |
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.
Sharman in 1949
Top girls' names in 1949
More about 1949
girls
1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 13,578 of them was named Sharman, which outranked 87.3% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.