Shariah is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Shariah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shariah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shariah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shariah ranks at #5,568. That means there are 5,567 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 Shariah.
In fact, the name Shariah did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Shariah seemed to be more popular than ever in 2005. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,011, 47 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Shariah, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shariah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Shariah a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #7,858 - with a total of 11 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Shariah in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 96 women and girls named Shariah, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 96 women and girls named Shariah live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Shariah. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shariah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shariah and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Shariah relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 204,593 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shariah.
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 Shariah 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 Shariah 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 Shariah, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shariah
Shariah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
R
I
A
H
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
I
A
H
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. Shariah sounds like this:
