Sharry

Last seen for girls in 1992 at #11,738

Peak · girls
1949 · 39 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
953
since 1937

Sharry over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Sharry has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201937peak #1,469, 1949girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1992#11,7386
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1988#11,7985
1987#7,3539
1986#7,1349
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1981#6,8049
1980#9,0956
1979#10,2105
1978#5,95810
1977#9,6525
1976#5,21511
1975#3,77417
1974#5,36010
1973#4,15514
1972#3,54317
1971#3,50818
1970#3,03022
1969#3,61915
1968#2,43126
1967#2,37626
1966#2,93718
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1964#2,34827
1963#2,09432
1962#2,66821
1961#2,67321
1960#2,19628
1959#2,45822
1958#2,07329
1957#2,02829
1956#1,73837
1955#2,28023
1954#1,90930
1953#2,30121
1952#2,02325
1951#2,18221
1950#1,83527
1949#1,46939
1948#1,62133
1947#1,75230
1946#1,58331
1945#1,99318
1944#1,74223
1943#1,99419
1942#1,59227
1941#1,56925
1940#2,73710
1939#3,4297
1938#4,3425
1937#3,1468
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First appearance
1937

The first year at least five girls were named Sharry! It came in at #3,146, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Sharry is popular in 1937

No state had 5 or more girls named Sharry in 1937, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Sharry
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1992
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1937
  • Peaked 1949 at #1,469 (39 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 43,869
  • Highest: 1 in 43,869 girls born in 1949 were named Sharry (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 307,322 girls born in 1992 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 27.7% of all girls named Sharry (264) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s20#3,146 (1937)#3,639
1940s255#1,469 (1949)#1,805
1950s264#1,738 (1956)#2,083
1960s233#2,094 (1963)#2,618
1970s129#3,030 (1970)#5,441
1980s46#6,804 (1981)#8,264
1990s6#11,738 (1992)#11,738

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.

Sharry in 1937

girls
#3,146
8 births · 1 in 133,004 girls

Top girls' names in 1937

  1. #1Mary55,641
  2. #2Barbara34,917
  3. #3Patricia26,838
  4. #4Shirley26,823
  5. #5Betty25,337
  6. #6Carol17,336
  7. #7Nancy17,074
  8. #8Dorothy16,572
  9. #9Joan15,301
  10. #10Margaret15,144
  11. #3,146Sharry8
More about 1937

girls

1,064,033 girls got a published name in 1937; 1 in 133,004 of them was named Sharry, which outranked 36.2% of the 4,930 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sharry
  1. #2,940Willo9
  2. #2,940Wynonia9
  3. #2,940Zannie9
  4. #3,146Sharry8
  5. #3,146Adelfa8
  6. #3,146Adena8
  7. #3,146Adina8
  8. #3,434Adelita7
  9. #3,434Adlean7
  10. #3,434Adrena7

Tied with 287 names at #3,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1936
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,217Noreta#4,181 → #964
  2. ↑ 2,845Noretta#3,701 → #856
  3. ↑ 2,351Leilani#3,103 → #752
  4. ↑ 1,407Deann#2,263 → #856
  5. ↑ 1,209Norita#1,741 → #532
Fallers
  1. ↓ 438Dorla#951 → #1,389
  2. ↓ 331Vilma#951 → #1,282
  3. ↓ 303Imelda#979 → #1,282
  4. ↓ 297Lulu#695 → #992
  5. ↓ 292Lyda#840 → #1,132

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1937 →