Sharell
Feminine
Sharell is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,366 girls against 16 boys since 1880.
Sharell opens with two letters that write one of the worst-behaved sounds in English. The sh sound is spelled six different ways in ordinary words — ship, nation, special, mission, machine, sugar — and only the first of them looks like itself. A name that starts with the plain spelling is doing the reader a favor that the language rarely bothers with.
How old is the name Sharell?
Sharell first appears in US birth records in 1939 — 86 years ago. The typical Sharell alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 1,300 people named Sharell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharell most popular?
Sharell peaked in 1986, reaching #1638 nationally. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A front that appears across many American names to Sharell
Our story of Sharell
One of the likelier parents has no etymology of its own, which is worth saying plainly rather than papering over. Cheryl appears in English in the twentieth century without an ancestor: it is not in the medieval records, not in the saints' calendars, not in any European language before it turns up in English-speaking countries. The explanations offered are guesses — a French word for dear with an ending attached, a blend with a gem name, an alteration of a Welsh name — and none of them has documentary support. That is not unusual for names of that era, and it puts a name like this one in an odd position: a possible descendant of a name that is itself unexplained, which means the trail stops two steps back rather than one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source can be established. The front resembles several names and the ending is one of the most productive in American naming, and the name may be a compound of the two or a respelling of something else entirely. Where a name has three possible parents and no documentation, the honest reading is none.
How the name formed
- A front that appears across many American names
- An ending that was among the most productive of its era
- Cheryl arriving in English without an etymology
- Sharell in the registers from the late nineteen thirties
Pronouncing Sharell
shuh-REL
Two syllables with the stress at the back and the first reduced almost to nothing. That reduction is why the vowel in front can be written with an a or an e without any audible difference.
Nicknames for Sharell
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
- 1939
- Most girls named
- 198672 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1638reached in 1986
- Change vs 2014
- −53.8%6 in 2015, from 13
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.
Sharells among us
people named Sharell 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
Sharell 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
- The spelling of the opening sound is the plainest English offers.
- It works on the register for either child, which the record confirms.
- Ellie comes out of it as a completely current short form.
- Sherell, Sharelle and Cherelle are all in use and will be written for it.
- No meaning can be given, and the likeliest parent has none either.
- The stress at the back is unusual for an American woman's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharells 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 Sharell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharell in 2025?
- Sharell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharell with classmates?
- Sharell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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