Sherika
Feminine
The k in this ending arrived from northern Europe. Erika, Annika, Ulrika and Monika are all written that way in German and the Scandinavian languages, and American naming borrowed the letter along with the shape — which is why an ending that looks modern and invented is in fact a piece of German orthography.
How old is the name Sherika?
Sherika first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Sherika alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,900 people named Sherika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherika most popular?
Sherika peaked in 1979, reaching #1085 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Sherika
The same string of letters is a real Arabic word. Sharika is the feminine of a word meaning a partner or associate — a business partner, a companion in an enterprise — and it is in ordinary use across the Arabic-speaking world, where the related noun is the standard word for a company. There is no reason to think an American family reached this spelling through Arabic, and the resemblance is coincidence. It remains the only language in which these letters mean anything, which is worth a paragraph on a page that would otherwise have nothing to report but the construction.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The prefix carries no sense and the ending contributes none. There is an Arabic word discussed below that the letters land on, and there is no evidence connecting the two.
Pronouncing Sherika
shuh-REE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The prefix is unstressed and reduces, as prefixes of this kind always do.
Nicknames for Sherika
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 1979126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1085reached in 1979
- Change vs 2002
- +20.0%6 in 2003, 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.
Sherikas among us
people named Sherika 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
Sherika 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
- Rika sits inside it as a short form used in several countries.
- The rhythm is even and the name is comfortable at speed.
- The spelling follows the sound with no ambiguity.
- There is no inherited meaning, whatever other pages claim.
- Shereka and Sharica both appear and the spelling gets queried.
- It reads clearly as belonging to a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Sherika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherika in 2025?
- Sherika is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Sherika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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