Meaning not yet researched.
Sharlene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #462 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #462 in 1949; #10,788 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sharlene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,788 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #462.
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Sharlene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #462 in 1949 · most girls in one year: 380 (1956).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Sharlene, making it the 10,788th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,213 places from #12,001 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Sharlene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #462, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 380, in 1956. For comparison, it was #5,807 in 2015 and #506 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sharlene in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 12,175 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,893 babies named Sharlene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 148 US girls were named Sharlene; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sharleen (2,623 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sharlyn, Sharline and Sharlynn 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: Sharlyn (1,482), Sharline (415), Sharlynn (162), Sharlon (87), Sharlyne (80), Sharlin (49), Sharlean (48), Sharlane (16), Sharlayne (6), Sharleene (5), Sharlen (5), Sharlan (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 Sharlene 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 | 9 | #10,788 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,001 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,917 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,461 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,454 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,884 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,078 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,487 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,798 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,005 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,869 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,117 | — | — |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,160 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,016 | — | — |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,856 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1979 | 105 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1977 | 128 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1976 | 132 | #970 | — | — |
| 1975 | 105 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1974 | 111 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1972 | 152 | #854 | — | — |
| 1971 | 189 | #771 | — | — |
| 1970 | 207 | #725 | — | — |
| 1969 | 218 | #675 | — | — |
| 1968 | 203 | #683 | — | — |
| 1967 | 262 | #591 | — | — |
| 1966 | 287 | #561 | — | — |
| 1965 | 223 | #659 | — | — |
| 1964 | 308 | #560 | — | — |
| 1963 | 270 | #613 | — | — |
| 1962 | 218 | #701 | — | — |
| 1961 | 227 | #696 | — | — |
| 1960 | 246 | #645 | — | — |
| 1959 | 214 | #686 | — | — |
| 1958 | 293 | #582 | — | — |
| 1957 | 312 | #543 | — | — |
| 1956 | 380 | #481 | — | — |
| 1955 | 246 | #586 | — | — |
| 1954 | 305 | #507 | — | — |
| 1953 | 328 | #475 | — | — |
| 1952 | 284 | #498 | — | — |
| 1951 | 275 | #494 | — | — |
| 1950 | 256 | #506 | — | — |
| 1949 | 302 | #462 | — | — |
| 1948 | 248 | #526 | — | — |
| 1947 | 255 | #524 | — | — |
| 1946 | 222 | #528 | — | — |
| 1945 | 226 | #480 | — | — |
| 1944 | 172 | #555 | — | — |
| 1943 | 154 | #611 | — | — |
| 1942 | 129 | #661 | — | — |
| 1941 | 143 | #586 | — | — |
| 1940 | 149 | #571 | — | — |
| 1939 | 139 | #571 | — | — |
| 1938 | 168 | #522 | — | — |
| 1937 | 142 | #572 | — | — |
| 1936 | 176 | #487 | — | — |
| 1935 | 182 | #473 | — | — |
| 1934 | 113 | #628 | — | — |
| 1933 | 92 | #680 | — | — |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,249 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,316 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,753 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,225 | — | — |
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).