Sharmin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: shy, bashful, modest, coy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɑɹmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sharmin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 883(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 212K
- GYGuyana1 in 9.4K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 883 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sharmeen in PK Pakistan.
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)
shy, bashful, modest, coy
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sharmin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #44 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 883 | 1.1M | Sharmin | 94 |
| US United States | — | 1,570 | 1 in 212K | 1.5K | Sharmin | 210 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 324K | listed | Sharmeen | 33 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Sharmin | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Sharmin | 23 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Sharmin | 23 |
| GY Guyana | — | 80 | 1 in 9.4K | 80 | Sharmin | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Sharmin | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sharmin | 2 |
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: This page lists the most common names in Bangladesh, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Sharmin 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.
Modest,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Sharmin Akthar Momob. 1970BDbadminton player
- Sharmin Alib. 1988INIndian speaker
- Sharmin Akterb. 1995BDWoman of Courage 2017
- Sharmin Segalb. 1995INIndian actress
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 41 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,024 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 80 | #514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #9,024 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 10 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sharmin mean, and where does it come from?
- shy, bashful, modest, coy Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Sharmin?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɑɹmən/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- Is Sharmin a male or female name?
- Sharmin 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 Sharmin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Sharmin in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharmin.
- How common is the name Sharmin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,570 people named Sharmin in 2020, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
- How common is Sharmin compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sharmin is the 44th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sharmin?
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/sharminThe 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, “Sharmin” — the 44th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.