Sharlene

femaleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#79highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2020

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2411
1999	#2444
2000	#2746
2002	#2868
2003	#3594
2004	#3725
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2009	#4564
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2015	#5730
2020	#5493

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

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 14 of the 25 years from 1996 to 2020.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1971–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #89 among girls in New Zealand in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1971–1974
Highest recorded position: #79 among girls in New Zealand, in 1972 (recorded 1971–1974).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #5493 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Girls

Sharlene appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 14 ranked years and 59 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1971.

Sharlene 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.

Sharlene'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	#2683 (1996)	#2411 (1997)	#5493 (2020)	14 of 25	59 (1996–2020)	6 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#467 (1979)	#442 (1988)	#517 (1990)	6 of 12	22 (1979–1990)	4 (1979)
New Zealand · Girls	#89 (1971)	#79 (1972)	#93 (1974)	3 of 4	220 (1971–1974)	79 (1971)

Sharlene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sharlene in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	3 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	30	7 of 10	4
2010s	9	3 of 10	3
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1971 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #79 in New Zealand in 1972.

Sharlene'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
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1974	New Zealand	female	#93	63	High	Verified
1972	New Zealand	female	#79	78	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	female	#89	79	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	4	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#442	4	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#521	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Sharlene is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Sharlene, between 1971 and 2020, in 23 of those 50 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New Zealand	1971–1974	3	#79 in 1972
Republic of Ireland	1979–1990	6	#442 in 1988
England and Wales	1996–2020	14	#2411 in 1997

Its high point came 25 years earlier in New Zealand (1972) than in England and Wales (1997).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 1990; it appears again in 1996.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Sharlene was ranked #79 in New Zealand · Girls in 1972. 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.

What is known about Sharlene

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1971–2020.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 3 regions, from 1971 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #79 in New Zealand in 1972. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sharlene

Sharlene at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sharlene across 3 official records

Sharlene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Sharlene is officially recorded

Names published alongside Sharlene

What is known about Sharlene

Sharlene at a glance

Sharlene across 3 official records

Sharlene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Sharlene