Sharie
Feminine
This name sits at a junction where two entirely unrelated traditions have arrived at the same sound. One is a Hebrew place on the Mediterranean coast, borrowed as a name by English-speaking Protestants. The other is a French term of endearment. Neither has anything to do with the other and both produce names spelled almost identically.
How old is the name Sharie?
Sharie first appears in US birth records in 1934 — 91 years ago. The typical Sharie alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 1,700 people named Sharie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharie most popular?
Sharie peaked in 1962, reaching #1230 nationally. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sharon to Sharie
The story of Sharie
One letter separates this from the French spelling and the two come from different continents. The French word is an ordinary adjective meaning dear, used as an endearment and taken into English naming in the twentieth century; the Hebrew is a coastal plain, which entered English through scripture and became a name in the nineteenth. Change the opening consonant and you cross from one to the other. That kind of convergence is common in American naming and it is why so many names of this shape have two confident and incompatible etymologies attached to them on different pages.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The two possible parents mean completely different things and the record does not say which a family had in mind. With the route unresolved no reading can be offered.
How the name formed
- Sharon
- Sharie
Pronouncing Sharie
SHARR-ee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Some families put it on the second, saying shuh-REE, and the spelling settles nothing.
Nicknames for Sharie
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
- 1934
- Most girls named
- 196280 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1230reached in 1962
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%6 in 2012, from 6
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.
Sharies among us
people named Sharie 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
Sharie 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
- It is short, soft and completely easy on first hearing.
- The spelling contains nothing that needs explaining twice.
- It connects to two well-established traditions without belonging to either.
- The stress placement is unsettled and strangers will guess.
- Shari, Sherie and Cherie all sit nearby and get substituted.
- No meaning can be given, because the parent cannot be identified.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Sharie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharie in 2025?
- Sharie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharie with classmates?
- Sharie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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