Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Sharlon

#26,395 most common girls' name of all time · #42,725 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1944–1977

Rank among girls
#26,395
Rank overall
#42,725 of 105,966
First appeared
1944
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
87
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1960 #5,027
Best rank
#4,166 1948
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
1960

Sharlon first appears in 1944. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1977 6 — 6 #8,770
1975 5 — 5 #9,461
1972 5 — 5 #8,686
1970 5 — 5 #8,442
1968 5 — 5 #7,459
1967 7 — 7 #5,743
1963 5 — 5 #7,095
1961 6 — 6 #6,235
1960 8 — 8 #5,027
1954 6 — 6 #5,567
1950 5 — 5 #5,877
1949 6 — 6 #5,142
1948 8 — 8 #4,166
1946 5 — 5 #5,557
1944 5 — 5 #5,229