Given name & surname
Shera
“a very bright light”
Shera is used as a given name and a surname. One Aramaic interpretation is “a very bright light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Aramaic interpretation is “a very bright light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Aramaic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1938. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shera through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,507
- 0 boys · 1,507 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 135 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 girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 135 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,460 as a first name in 2020; 296 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.
Shera’s family of names
Shera has a related form in Sherae. Shera has a related form in Sherah. Shera has a related form in Sheera.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sherralikely variant
- Sherayavariant
- Sherayvariant
- Sherahvariant
- Sheraevariant
- Sheeravariant
- Shearavariant
- Sherallevariant
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People named Shera
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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