Sharina
Feminine
Sharina belongs to a set of names that differ from each other by a single consonant in the middle. Sharina, Shakira, Shalina, Shamira, Sharita: the front and the back are fixed, the middle is a slot, and a family filling that slot is doing something a language does when it is inventing rather than inheriting.
How old is the name Sharina?
Sharina first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Sharina alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,000 people named Sharina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharina most popular?
Sharina peaked in 1985, reaching #1232 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
Where it comes from
From a productive front element in American naming to Sharina
Our story of Sharina
A slot is a very efficient thing for a naming system to have. Once the shape is established — this opening, that ending — everything in between becomes available, and a family can produce a name that has never been given before and that everybody can read on sight. Linguists call this productivity, and it is the same property that lets English make a new word ending in -ness out of any adjective you like. What is unusual is to see it working on names, in public, at the scale of a whole country, and to be able to date the arrival of each variant to the year. Most languages did this in the dark.
Meaningnot established
Not established
None of the parts carries a meaning. The front element is the commonest opening in American name-building of the last sixty years, the ending is one of several borrowed from Latin and Italian, and the consonant between them is chosen for sound. Some of the names in this set collide with real words in Arabic, Hebrew or Sanskrit, which regularly leads to confident etymologies being offered for names that have none.
How the name formed
- a productive front element in American naming
- a Latin-derived ending available to attach to anything
- the middle consonant becomes a slot to be filled
- Sharina appears in the record in the 1960s
- peaks in the middle 1980s
Related forms: Sharena · Shalina
Pronouncing Sharina
shuh-REE-nuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The spelling and the sound agree completely, which is the point of how these names are written.
Nicknames for Sharina
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
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 1985111 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1232reached in 1985
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%5 in 2023, from 5
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.
Sharina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharena in English — spelling variant
- Shalina in English — related form
Sharinas among us
people named Sharina 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
Sharina 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
- Rina and Shari are both available and both stand alone as names.
- It is read correctly at first sight by anybody.
- The sound is soft throughout, with the stress where English prefers it.
- There is no meaning to give her and no origin outside the pattern.
- It sits one consonant away from several other names and will be confused with all of them.
- It is closely dated to the last decades of the century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Sharina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharina in 2025?
- Sharina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharina with classmates?
- Sharina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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