girls:
1k births since 1947
#4702 (18th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1929
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1929
#6697 (13th percentile)
The name Sharman is the #6,697 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,042 recorded births since 1929. This represents the 13.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,702 (17.7% percentile) for all time with 1,014 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1929.
Sharman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1929 (1929 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Sharman is available in 35 out of the 55 years between 1929 and 1983 (34 years for girls and 5 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 Sharman has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1947, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1929 to 1946), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.8% girls from 1947 to 1983).
For girls, Sharman reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #518) with 91 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 91 births per million (ranked 22.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
For boys, Sharman reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #633) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharman".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sharman is pronounced as SHAHR-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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