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.

Sharlene: Recorded since 1971, its highest recorded position is #79, and it stood at #5,493 in 2020.

3registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#79highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2020

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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.

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 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

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 Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sharlene 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 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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1971 and 2020, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #79, first reached in 1972.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 79 births, registered in New Zealand in 1971.

Its record falls into 14 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1979, and 25 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.

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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Sharon · #2, 73y
Shaun · #34, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Gayle · #80, 22y
Karyn · #77, 24y
Nixon · #81, 19y
Rihanna · #77, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Nathaniel · #79, 38y
Caragh · #80, 47y
Mateusz · #80, 48y
Brad · #77, 36y

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.

Sharlene 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 Sharlene without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Sharlene

Cecilie Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4564 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2636.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1741.
Meabh Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #4049.
Finley Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #2444 and #1261.

Moved the opposite way to Sharlene

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 while Ada went from #2683 to #38.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 while Alma went from #2096 to #304.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 while Alyssa went from #783 to #213.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 while Amalie went from #2096 to #992.

Moved the same way as Sharlene

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 and Abigail from #21 to #87.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 and Aimee from #70 to #749.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 and Aisling from #440 to #1556.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sharlene went from #2683 to #5493 and Alex from #161 to #1556.

What's not yet available

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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 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

Sharlene appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Sharlene

Sharlene and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Sharlene

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Moved the same way as Sharlene

Sharlene at a glance

Sharlene across 3 official records

Sharlene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sharlene appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Sharlene

Sharlene and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Sharlene

Moved the opposite way to Sharlene

Moved the same way as Sharlene