Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Shara isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shara through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,950
- 5 boys · 4,945 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 232 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,680 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,680 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 232 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,941 as a first name in 2020; 155 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shara’s family of names
Shara may belong to the same name family as SHHARA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shara
- Shara ProctorAnguillan long jumperborn 1988
- Shara MarcheAustralian road cyclistborn 1987
- Shara NovaAmerican musicianborn 1974
- Shara HubrichGerman karatekaborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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