Sharyl
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.
Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Sharyl by the numbers
Its American peak was 131 babies in 1961, making it a 1960s name.
What we can tell you about Sharyl
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sharyl. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sherylbeloved; a variant form of Cheryl22 in the US (2017)
- Sharol5 in the US (2017)
- Sharyn
- Sharona plain or fertile region; biblical place name243 in the US (2017)
- Shayagift from god; a form of Shaya or Isaiah13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sharlabeloved; a form of Charlotte or Charlene10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Sharyl
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