Sharan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sharan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sharan: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 31 years, its highest recorded position is #204, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
54years from first to last
#204highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sharan's record

Absent from every published list for 31 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#2746
2002	#3409
2004	#4598
2006	#5061
2008	#5545
2009	#3936
2013	#4050
2014	#4003
2017	#3583

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 9 of the 18 years from 2000 to 2017.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #354 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #3583 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Sharan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 9 ranked years and 39 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1967.

Sharan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sharan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2746 (2000)	#2746 (2000)	#3583 (2017)	9 of 18	39 (2000–2017)	6 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#2189 (2003)	#2189 (2003)	#4023 (2016)	7 of 14	28 (2003–2016)	6 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#354 (1967)	#354 (1967)	#357 (1968)	2 of 2	8 (1967–1968)	4 (1967)

Sharan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #204 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Sharan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#204	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2017, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #204, first reached in 1964.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 31 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 36 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
31 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
#3,583position in 2017, its most recent recorded year
36 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
6births registered in its largest year, 2003Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Meadbh · #202, 20y
Katie-Leigh · #201, 21y
Breandan · #199, 13y
Piaras · #210, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Humphrey · #204, 43y
Macdara · #204, 32y
Pearl · #204, 53y
Terri · #204, 45y

Sharan was ranked #204 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1964. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sharan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sharan without appearing here.

Sharan moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2012 they stood at #5545 and #4524 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4050 and #5742.
Tracey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3936 and #2535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4050 and #5742.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3936 and #3422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #5691.
Therese Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3936 and #3422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Sharan

Hayden Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #878.
Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2746 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #809.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #938.
Dylan Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #2278.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #204 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sharan

Sharan at a glance

What stands out in Sharan's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sharan across 3 official records

Sharan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Sharan

Sharan and the names beside it

Sharan moved ahead of

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Sharan at a glance

What stands out in Sharan's record

Sharan across 3 official records

Sharan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Sharan

Sharan and the names beside it

Sharan moved ahead of

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