Sharry
Feminine
Sharry is a short form that was written down as a whole name, and the long name it came from has never been agreed on. Three candidates fit the sound equally well and come from three different places — a plain in the Levant, a Latin virtue and a mid-century American coinage.
How old is the name Sharry?
Sharry first appears in US birth records in 1937 — 88 years ago. The typical Sharry alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 800 people named Sharry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharry most popular?
Sharry peaked in 1949, reaching #1469 nationally. See the whole 1949 chart.
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Where it comes from
From The plain of Sharon gives its name to a phrase in the Song of Songs to Sharry
The story of Sharry
The Sharon branch carries a small famous puzzle. The rose of Sharon appears in the Song of Songs, and it is neither a rose nor reliably from Sharon: the Hebrew word behind it is a plant name nobody has securely identified, and translators have proposed a crocus, a narcissus, a tulip and a meadow saffron at various times. English then attached the phrase to a shrub that grows in gardens across America and is a hibiscus with no connection to the Levant at all. So a famous flower turns out to be an unidentified plant wearing a borrowed place name, which is a fair emblem for a name whose own parentage cannot be pinned down either.
Meaningnot established
Not established
If the parent is Sharon, the name is a place in the Levant that became a woman's name in English-speaking countries. If it is Charity, the root is the Latin word for costly affection, by way of a Christian virtue. If it is Sharlene or Sharla, the front is a syllable rather than a word and carries nothing. All three were current when this spelling appears, all three shorten to the same sound, and no record connects this name to any of them in particular.
How the name formed
- The plain of Sharon gives its name to a phrase in the Song of Songs
- Sharon, Charity and Sharlene are all current in American naming
- Their shared short form is written into records as a name
- Sharry appears alongside Sherry, Shari and Sherri
Related forms: Sherry · Shari · Sherri
Pronouncing Sharry
SHARR-ee
Two syllables with the stress on the first and a short a — it rhymes with marry, not with starry, for most American speakers. The doubled r is what holds that vowel short; the single-r spellings are usually said with a different vowel altogether.
Nicknames for Sharry
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
- 1937
- Most girls named
- 194939 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1469reached in 1949
- Change vs 1988
- +20.0%6 in 1992, 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.
Sharry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sherry in English — spelling variant
- Shari in English — spelling variant
- Sherri in English — spelling variant
Sharrys among us
people named Sharry 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
Sharry 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
- Short, warm and instantly easy for anyone to say
- Familiar in sound while being rare in this particular spelling
- Nothing in it needs teaching to a stranger except the letters
- At least four spellings share this sound, and the commonest of them is a drink, so the name will be written wrongly often.
- It reads as a nickname, which some adults find limiting on formal documents.
- No meaning can be given, only three possible parents that point in different directions.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Sharry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharry in 2025?
- Sharry is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharry with classmates?
- Sharry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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