How Many People Are Named Sharyn?

5,298

people named Sharyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 64,512 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,243 babies named Sharyn in Social Security records from 1931 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,590

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,009

See the top 100

Peak Year

1947

919 births

Trend

2014

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SHER-ən, SHAR-ən
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of SHARON.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Sharyn in English. Counting Sharyn and these spellings together, about 562,542 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Sharyn in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Sharyn alive today is about 68 years old, and 76% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 60 and 78 in 2025.

Under 30 94
1.8%
30 to 59 1,173
22.1%
60 and over 4,031
76.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Sharyn first appears in the records in 1931 and was given most often in 1947, to 919 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.

Babies given the name each year, 1931 to 2014

🏆 Rank History

Sharyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #241, in 1945.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#241 (1945)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#380 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Sharyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Sharyn were born in New York than in any other state: about 577 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sharyn was given 2.8 times as often in Massachusetts, 2.3 times in Pennsylvania and 2.1 times in New Jersey.

New York 577
Pennsylvania 555
California 396
Massachusetts 322
Ohio 309
New Jersey 237
Illinois 215
Michigan 118
Texas 93
Wisconsin 76
North Carolina 74
Connecticut 71
Minnesota 64
Florida 50
Indiana 50
Missouri 45
Louisiana 36
Washington 36
Maryland 35
Iowa 35
Virginia 33
West Virginia 22
District of Columbia 21
Oklahoma 20
Rhode Island 19
Georgia 19
Kansas 18
Tennessee 18
Hawaii 16
South Carolina 15
Colorado 14
Kentucky 14
Maine 13
Nebraska 13
Alabama 12
Oregon 12
Arkansas 10
South Dakota 8
New Hampshire 5
Utah 4
Mississippi 3
Montana 3

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