Shara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a Mongol people.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 51K
- CACanada≈1 in 63K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a Mongol people
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Shara | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Shara | 71 |
| US United States | 4,941 | 1 in 67K | 4.9K | Shara | 367 |
| BR Brazil | 2,670 | 1 in 79K | 2.7K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 6 | Shara | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 5 | Shara | 97 |
| AU Australia | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 3 | Shara | 94 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Shara | 10 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the ca-statcan-baby-names register. 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)
Shara 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 lad, forest
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)
- Shara Talianb. 1893AMAmenian singer (1893–1965)
- Shara Novab. 1974USAmerican musician
- Shara Hughesb. 1981USpainter (born 1981)
- Shara Gillowb. 1987AUAustralian road cyclist
- Shara Proctorb. 1988GBAnguillan long jumper
- Cynthia Shara Ayunidhab. 1997IDbadminton player
- Shara Hubrichb. 1997DEGerman karateka
- Shara BaileyUSAmerican physical anthropologist and academic
- Shara TibkenUSAmerican journalist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,946 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #4,214 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,958 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 267 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 66 | #3,946 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2003 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1978 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Shara mean, and where does it come from?
- a Mongol people Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Shara a male or female name?
- Shara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Shara in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shara.
- How common is the name Shara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,941 people named Shara in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.