In 2025, 8 US girls were named Sharla, making it the 11,781st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,909 places from #8,872 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 12 girls named Sharla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #637, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #11,701 in 2015 and #1,111 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sharla in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1932 with 7 babies. In all, 6,444 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,816 babies named Sharla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 74 US girls were named Sharla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.