girls:
1.8k births since 1934
#3991 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1934
#5964 (23rd percentile)
The name Sharilyn is the #5,964 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,790 recorded births since 1934. This represents the 22.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,991 (30.2% percentile) for all time with 1,790 births since 1934.
Sharilyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1934 (first recorded for girls in 1934). Birth data for Sharilyn is available in 72 out of the 87 years between 1934 and 2020. 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, Sharilyn reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #622) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 35 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharilyn".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Sharilyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.7% confident that Sharilyn is pronounced as SHEH-ruh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHA-ruh-lihn, at 26.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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