Sharan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: protection
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sharan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 181K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
7,324 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shoron in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
protection
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sharan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 7,324 | 1 in 181K | 7.3K | Sharan | 177 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Sharan | 23 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Shoron | 28 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Sharan | 31 |
| US United States | 303 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.8K | Sharan | 181 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 160K | 3 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Sharan | 14 |
| SG Singapore | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Sharan | 18 |
7,324 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sharan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Ivashko Sharan, serf. 1495.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Divij Sharanb. 1986INIndian tennis player
- Rajeshwar SharanINresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,220 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.6K | #2,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 341 | #7,220 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1961 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sharan mean, and where does it come from?
- protection Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Sharan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɹən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sharan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Sharan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharan.
- How common is the name Sharan?
- In India, the national register counted 7,324 people named Sharan, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sharan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.