Meaning not yet researched.
Shari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #142 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #142 in 1961; #11,780 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shari in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,780 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #142.
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Shari: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #142 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 3,117 (1961).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Shari, making it the 11,780th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,235 places from #15,015 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 girls named Shari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #142, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,117. For comparison, it was #10,054 in 2015 and #335 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shari in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 9 babies. In all, 40,973 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 20,551 babies named Shari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 79 US girls were named Shari; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sharee (3,871 babies since 1880), Sharie (1,976 babies since 1880), Sharri (1,299 babies since 1880) and Zharia (1,020 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shariah, Sharry and Sharrie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shariah (965), Sharry (953), Sharrie (751), Sharia (653), Shary (362), Shariya (361), Sharea (203), Zhari (74), Sharya (53), Shauri (48), Sharey (10), Sharyia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,780 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,015 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,916 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,112 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,322 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,270 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,300 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,071 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,735 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,054 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,588 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,983 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,374 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,155 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,514 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,093 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,326 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1993 | 132 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1991 | 164 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1990 | 201 | #945 | — | — |
| 1989 | 205 | #900 | — | — |
| 1988 | 261 | #718 | — | — |
| 1987 | 303 | #630 | — | — |
| 1986 | 363 | #557 | — | — |
| 1985 | 516 | #426 | — | — |
| 1984 | 580 | #383 | — | — |
| 1983 | 397 | #494 | — | — |
| 1982 | 322 | #571 | — | — |
| 1981 | 333 | #559 | — | — |
| 1980 | 350 | #539 | — | — |
| 1979 | 384 | #515 | — | — |
| 1978 | 358 | #519 | — | — |
| 1977 | 384 | #496 | — | — |
| 1976 | 487 | #415 | — | — |
| 1975 | 482 | #419 | — | — |
| 1974 | 583 | #369 | — | — |
| 1973 | 724 | #318 | — | — |
| 1972 | 823 | #299 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,014 | #283 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,200 | #257 | 6 | #4,645 |
| 1969 | 1,409 | #217 | 5 | #4,926 |
| 1968 | 1,418 | #213 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,665 | #189 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,644 | #196 | 5 | #4,448 |
| 1965 | 1,847 | #184 | — | — |
| 1964 | 2,114 | #178 | 6 | #3,970 |
| 1963 | 2,455 | #164 | — | — |
| 1962 | 2,959 | #146 | 9 | #3,014 |
| 1961 | 3,117 | #142 | 10 | #2,875 |
| 1960 | 1,888 | #195 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,523 | #214 | 5 | #4,491 |
| 1958 | 1,144 | #257 | — | — |
| 1957 | 815 | #320 | — | — |
| 1956 | 604 | #356 | — | — |
| 1955 | 447 | #418 | — | — |
| 1954 | 406 | #434 | — | — |
| 1953 | 325 | #478 | — | — |
| 1952 | 319 | #474 | — | — |
| 1951 | 343 | #445 | — | — |
| 1950 | 534 | #335 | — | — |
| 1949 | 488 | #358 | — | — |
| 1948 | 270 | #496 | — | — |
| 1947 | 243 | #540 | — | — |
| 1946 | 205 | #552 | — | — |
| 1945 | 142 | #607 | — | — |
| 1944 | 165 | #570 | — | — |
| 1943 | 144 | #633 | — | — |
| 1942 | 156 | #595 | — | — |
| 1941 | 151 | #570 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #878 | — | — |
| 1939 | 55 | #957 | — | — |
| 1938 | 62 | #904 | — | — |
| 1937 | 47 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1936 | 50 | #978 | — | — |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,531 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).