Shareef
Shareef is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199753 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1974
- 1,187people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,187 boys have been named Shareef in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 53 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 26%.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Shareef was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Shareef
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shaheedpeak 1994
- Jamonpeak 1999
- Teonpeak 2000
- Rasheedpeak 1995
- Alikapeak 1998
- Jovanpeak 1998
- Rashaunpeak 1998
- Quanpeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.