Given name & surname
Sharad
“a wise man; a sage”
Sharad is a variant of Sarat. One Indian interpretation is “a wise man; a sage.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sharad is a variant of Sarat. One Indian interpretation is “a wise man; a sage.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sharad is a variant of Sarat. An origin associated with Sarat is Indian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sharad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 105
- 105 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,122 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sharad’s family of names
Sharad has a related form in Sarat. In English usage, Sharad has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form शरद.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sharad
- Sharad PawarIndian politician (born 1940)
- Sharad Bobde47th Chief Justice of Indiaborn 1956
- Sharad MalhotraIndian actorborn 1983
- Sharad YadavIndian politician (1947–2023)
- Sharad KapoorIndian actorborn 1976
- Sharad JoshiIndian poet and writer (1931–1991)
- Sharad KelkarIndian actor & modelborn 1976
- Sharad VesawkarNepalese cricketerborn 1988
- Sharad Anantrao JoshiIndian politician, thinker, writer and founder of Shetkari Sanghatana (1935-2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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