Sharae
Feminine
The two letters at the end of Sharae are doing something unusual. In English words, ae is a mark of Latin or Greek: algae, larvae, aegis, formulae. In American names it is the opposite signal, marking a name made recently and made here, and nobody confuses the two.
How old is the name Sharae?
Sharae first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Sharae alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,300 people named Sharae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharae most popular?
Sharae peaked in 1991, reaching #1584 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sharae
English has a genuine problem here and this spelling is one of the answers to it. The language has no reliable way to write a stressed vowel at the end of a word, because for most of its history it did not need one: English words end on consonants or on unstressed syllables, and the few that do not are borrowings. American naming, which wants final stress because final stress sounds elegant, therefore has to improvise, and the available devices are all imperfect. The ae spelling is the one that borrows from Latin, and it works precisely because the reader knows it is not being used as Latin. Nobody looking at this name reads the ending as a plural or as a classical inflection. They read it as a name, which means the borrowed letters have been fully repurposed, and that is a real thing for a writing system to accomplish in a couple of generations.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning. The opening is a syllable in general circulation in American naming and the ending is a written device rather than a word. The similarity to French endings is real and is a matter of imitation rather than descent; no French name is spelled this way, and the resemblance was copied from the look of French rather than from any French name in particular.
Pronouncing Sharae
shuh-RAY
Two syllables with the stress firmly on the second. The ae writes the vowel of day, not the vowel of see, which is the opposite of what the same letters do in most English words that contain them.
Nicknames for Sharae
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1962
- Most girls named
- 199196 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1584reached in 1991
- Change vs 2015
- −14.3%6 in 2016, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sharaes among us
people named Sharae are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Sharae sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Final stress gives the name a clean, definite ending and makes it carry when called.
- Rae is a complete, established name sitting in the second half.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so it is never mispronounced once heard.
- Sharay, Sherae and Sharee all exist for the same sound, so spelling it out is permanent.
- The ae ending is read as Latin by anyone meeting it cold, which produces the wrong vowel.
- There is no meaning to hand a child who asks for one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharaes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Sharae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharae in 2025?
- Sharae is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharae with classmates?
- Sharae will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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