Sharma

Sharma is the 727th most common surname in the United States, shared by 46,467 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,432.

By the numbers

People: 46,467
Rank: 727th
How common: 1 in 6,432
Per 100,000: 15.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Hindi

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sharma described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sharma

Anushka Sharma (born 1988)Indian actress
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999)President of India from 1992 to 1997
Rakesh Sharma (born 1949)First Indian astronaut
Robin Sharma (born 1964)Canadian self-help writer
Neha Sharma (born 1987)Indian actress
Rohit Sharma (born 1987)Indian cricketer (Captain)
Sanu SharmaNepali author, writer, novelist, poet and lyricist
Suraj Sharma (born 1993)Indian actor

People named Sharma with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sharma

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.