girls:
547 births since 1967
#5169 (10th percentile)
overall:
547 births since 1967
#7192 (7th percentile)
The name Sharifa is the #7,192 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 547 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 7.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,169 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 547 births since 1967.
Sharifa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967). Birth data for Sharifa is available in 41 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Sharifa reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #755) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Sharifa ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 32.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharifa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sharifa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.3% confident that Sharifa is pronounced as shuh-REE-fuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sher-EE-fuh, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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