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Around the globe, שרקה (Šárka , Sarka , שרקה ) is a common primarily girly, but very seldom boy's forename. The given name שרקה is characteristic of Czechia, where it is a common female name, Slovakia, where it is quite a rare female name, and Greece, where it is a rare female name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in Czechia, India, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, שרקה is the last name as well as the forename.
שרקה is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sárka , the operatic character in the opera Šárka by Zdeněk Fibich and Šárka , the operatic character in the opera Šárka by Leoš Janáček.