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The first name 
Sharanya

Sharanya is a female first name.

Sharanya – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Sharanya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sharanya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sharanya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sharanya ranks at #7,378. That means there are 7,377 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sharanya.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Sharanya

Sharanya -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Sharanya is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 39 Americans in total bear this name. And these 39 women are located in only three states: California, New Jersey and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Sharanya and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Sharanya in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 532,604 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sharanya.

Sharanya has 8 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With eight letters, the name Sharanya is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

Other names with 
S, h, a, r, a, n, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Sharanya – S, h, a, r, a, n, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Rayaansh or Aaryansh.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Sharanya

If your name is Sharanya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Sharanya

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sharanya, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Apple

Rocket

Apple

Nut

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Sharanya is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Sharanya in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Sharanya

Sharanya

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Sharanya

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Sharanya is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
A
R
A
N
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Sharanya

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
H
A
R
A
N
Y
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sharanya sounds like this: