Sharaya is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Sharaya has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Sharaya. That means that a girl named Sharaya is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sharaya.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Sharaya. Girls named Sharaya have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,028 Sharaya ranked higher than ever before in 1988. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Sharaya has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2017. In general, parents name their daughters Sharaya only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sharaya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Sharaya continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Sharaya that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Sharaya, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Sharaya is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Sharaya can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Sharaya. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Sharaya living in one state or another (if your name is Sharaya and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Sharaya is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00013% of all female residents are named Sharaya – that’s just one in 745,832! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 28 women with that name. So, if your name is Sharaya, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 seven letters, the name Sharaya has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.
If your name is Sharaya 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sharaya, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sharaya
Sharaya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
R
A
Y
A
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
Y
A
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. Sharaya sounds like this:
