girls:
1.2k births since 1936
#4528 (21st percentile)
boys:
53 births since 1999
#4533 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1936
#6498 (16th percentile)
The name Sharan is the #6,498 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,243 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 16.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,528 (20.8% percentile) for all time with 1,190 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,533 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1999.
Sharan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for girls and 1999 for boys). Birth data for Sharan is available in 66 out of the 81 years between 1936 and 2016 (59 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sharan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sharan reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #625) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 36 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Sharan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #872) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharan".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Sharan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Sharan is pronounced as SHEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-RUHN, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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