Shar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shaer in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 116 | Shar | 81 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Shaer | 61 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shar | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shar | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shaer | 28 |
| US United States | — | 929 | 1 in 358K | 790 | Shar | 260 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Shar | 63 |
| NZ New Zealand | #883 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Shar | 40 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Shar | 9 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Shar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, clipping of tekshar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bwr, ground squirrel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rup, whey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Shar Levineb. 1953CACanadian writer
- Shar Pourdaneshb. 1970USAmerican football player (born 1970)
- Shar Jacksonb. 1976USAmerican actress, singer, rapper
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 729 | #13,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 200 | #13,125 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 8 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Shar?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shar a male or female name?
- Shar is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Shar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Shar in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shar.
- How common is the name Shar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 929 people named Shar in 2020, about 1 in 358 thousand residents.
- How common is Shar compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Shar is the 883rd most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharThe 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, “Shar” — the 883rd most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.