Shara
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #5,464
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 232 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,945since 1927
Shara over time
Rank among girls' names. Shara has never cracked the top 700 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,289 | 56 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,367 | 112 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,334 | 107 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,249 | 113 | — | |
| 1986 | #997 | 155 | — | |
| 1985 | #948 | 164 | — | |
| 1984 | #821 | 191 | — | |
| 1983 | #838 | 183 | — | |
| 1982 | #780 | 210 | — | |
| 1981 | #858 | 181 | — | |
| 1980 | #783 | 210 | — | |
| 1979 | #718 | 232 | — | |
| 1978 | #858 | 171 | — | |
| 1977 | #933 | 149 | — | |
| 1976 | #999 | 126 | — | |
| 1975 | #994 | 123 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,039 | 115 | — | |
| 1973 | #941 | 129 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,111 | 100 | — | |
| 1971 | #988 | 127 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,108 | 106 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,208 | 85 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,301 | 72 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,299 | 70 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,273 | 72 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,448 | 58 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,383 | 64 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,023 | 25 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,701 | 32 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,955 | 24 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,664 | 26 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Shara! It came in at #4,805, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shara
- 2,085 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #13,208)
- 1,880 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #13,208)
- 3,727 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 170 spots in 1973 (#1,111 → #941)
- Biggest drop: 252 spots in 1987 (#997 → #1,249)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1979 at #718 (232 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1975–1986
- Highest: 1 in 6,919 girls born in 1979 were named Shara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Shara (1,626) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,805 (1927) | #4,805 |
| 1930s | 22 | #2,300 (1939) | #2,620 |
| 1940s | 181 | #1,610 (1941) | #2,265 |
| 1950s | 253 | #1,701 (1951) | #2,155 |
| 1960s | 602 | #1,208 (1969) | #1,482 |
| 1970s | 1,378 | #718 (1979) | #969 |
| 1980s | 1,626 | #780 (1982) | #998 |
| 1990s | 525 | #1,642 (1991) | #2,831 |
| 2000s | 234 | #3,417 (2001) | #5,698 |
| 2010s | 86 | #7,880 (2010) | #10,992 |
| 2020s | 33 | #9,562 (2021) | #13,079 |
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.
Shara in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 11,853 of them was named Shara, which outranked 90.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 312,271 of them was named Shara, which outranked 13.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 873 names at #5,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.