Sharod
Masculine
English names essentially never end in -od. Nimrod, Herod and Hesiod are the whole list, and all three are Hebrew or Greek. An ending has to appear often enough to be recognized before it can be used again, and this one never got there.
How old is the name Sharod?
Sharod first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Sharod alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 1,300 people named Sharod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharod most popular?
Sharod peaked in 1988, reaching #1576 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,138 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sharod
A suffix becomes available when enough names carry it for a listener to hear it as a unit. The -lyn ending qualified because hundreds of thousands of American women were called Lynn or had it as a middle name. The -aden ending qualified because Aiden and Braden reached the top of the list. An ending that appears on three names, all of them foreign and none of them common, never gets there, which is why -od has essentially no productive life in English naming: Nimrod is a Hebrew name attached to a hunter and now used as an insult, Herod is unusable, and Hesiod is a Greek poet nobody names a child after. So a coinage using it is doing something the system does not otherwise do, and the result is genuinely distinctive at the cost of sounding like nothing else.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Sharod has no inherited etymology. It joins a Sha- opening to a -rod ending. The opening belongs to the small set of American prefixes drawn from Arabic-derived names such as Shakir and Sharif; the ending has no source and no productive history in English naming. The peak is 1988.
Pronouncing Sharod
shuh-ROD
Two syllables, stress on the second. Sharod, Sharrod and Sherrod are close but not identical, differing in the first vowel.
Nicknames for Sharod
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
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 199051 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1576reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −22.2%7 in 2025, from 9
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.
Sharod in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharrod in English — spelling variant
- Sherrod in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Sharods among us
people named Sharod are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Sharod
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jarold test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sharod's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jarold climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jarold's path sketches the road Sharod is walking now.
Sharod sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sharod beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sharod in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Rod is available as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- The stressed ending gives it a firm final beat.
- It is genuinely distinctive.
- Sherrod is an established surname with a similar sound.
- The ending is not a pattern in English naming.
- It has no meaning in any language.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sharods 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 Sharod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharod in 2025?
- Sharod ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sharod?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Sharod — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sharod with classmates?
- Sharod will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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