Sharyn
Feminine · “plain”
Sharyn is Sharon with the y that mid-century America used to make a familiar name individual. Underneath both is a plain of fertile coastal land in Israel, not a person at all.
How old is the name Sharyn?
Sharyn first appears in US birth records in 1931 — 94 years ago. The typical Sharyn alive today was born around 1949, making them about 76 years old. About 5,500 people named Sharyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharyn most popular?
Sharyn peaked in 1945, reaching #241 nationally. See the whole 1945 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sharon to Sharyn
The story of Sharyn
Sharon rose extremely fast in American use from the 1930s and reached the top ten in the 1940s. A name that common invites individuation, and the tools American naming used were vowel substitutions and doubled consonants: Sharron, Sharyn, Sharen, Sheryn. The y-spelling appears in the registers through the 1940s and 1950s and peaked in the mid-1950s.
Meaning
plain, flat land
From the Hebrew Sharon, the coastal plain between Mount Carmel and Jaffa, from a root meaning flat or level. The Song of Songs has the phrase 'rose of Sharon', which is what made the place name usable as a personal one — though the plant meant is not a rose.
How the name formed
- Sharon
- Sharyn
Related forms: Sharon · Sharron · Sharen
Pronouncing Sharyn
SHA-run
Two syllables, stress on the first. The y changes nothing audible; Sharyn and Sharon are homophones.
Nicknames for Sharyn
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
- 1931
- Most girls named
- 1946680 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #241reached in 1945
- Change vs 2007
- +33.3%8 in 2014, 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.
Sharyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharon in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Sharron in English — spelling variant
- Sharen in English — spelling variant
Sharyns among us
people named Sharyn 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
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Fashion outlook
Sharyn has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A real and documented place with a transparent meaning stands behind it.
- The y gives the written name a distinct look at no cost in sound.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The y does no audible work, so the spelling has to be given every time.
- It is firmly period-coded to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,500 people named Sharyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharyn in 2025?
- Sharyn is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharyn with classmates?
- Sharyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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