Sharman

Where Sharman comes from

Sharman hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #4,007 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1950
    Peak, #668
    160 babies named Sharman — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1951
    Sharman Macdonald born
    Scottish playwright
  5. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,063.
  6. 1979
    Sharman Joshi born
    Indian actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sharman Joshi · Indian actor, born 1979
  • Sharman Macdonald · Scottish playwright, born 1951
  • Sharman Stone · Australian politician, born 1951
  • Sharman Kadish · British historian, born 1959

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.