The Sharma surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 28,559 people carried this name — #1,236 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 10,300 people counted. That is up 92% from 14,870 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
534 people named Sharma live in Switzerland.
They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 506 people named Sharma live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Poland’s population register
168 people named Sharma have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 1,304 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 14 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Masovian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 28 people named Sharma live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 25 people named Sharma.
Most of them — 24 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 1 département, most often Gironde.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In national population registers
2,287 people named Sharma are counted in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Slovenia.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad. Slovenia counts its residents on 1 January 2026.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0 · source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS), SiStat tables 05X1015S–05X1018S, family names of the population, 1 January 2026 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In Scotland’s registers today
Sharma was recorded 28 times in Scotland’s registers of births, marriages and deaths in 2025.
That made it the 872nd most common name in those registers, shared with others on the same count. Each birth counts the child’s surname, each marriage both partners’ and each death the surname of the person who died — a yearly count of registrations, not of the people who live in Scotland.
National Records of Scotland, «Most Common Surnames, 2025» (published 26 May 2026): every surname recorded 10 or more times in the 2025 registers, and the series from 1975 · different spellings are counted separately — © Crown copyright 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
In print
Sharma in American newspapers,
1921–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 9 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Sharma in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1990s.
241 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sharma. The most, 61, date from the 1980s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 1.6 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sharma.
Who carried it
People named Sharma,
with a public archive behind them.
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Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma 1893–1979 · writer -
Komal Sharma 1901– · actor -
Shriram Sharma 1911–1990 · writer -
Ram Narayan Sharma 1915–1985 · politician -
Esther Victoria Abraham 1916–2006 · actor
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma: Rkkrupa, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Komal Sharma: The Smile Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); Ram Narayan Sharma: Rabindrasharma1953, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 170 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Sharma,
in the records of 5 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States17 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 14
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 1
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Herman S. SharmaBorn 1913. Enlisted 1945; statistical clerk from U.s. At Large.
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Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Jay P. SharmaU.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1950, died 1971; buried at Culpeper National Cemetery, Virginia.
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Rattan C. SharmaBorn 1923 in Hoshiarpur, India. Entered the United States at San Francisco in 1948. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
Showing 3 of 17 records for Sharma in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
Australia10 records
- Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 5
- Tasmanian Names Index 2
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 2
- Canberra cemetery and marriage records 1
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Example: probate petition, 1848 Probate record Rekha Rajni SharmaReceptionist of Balwyn, Victoria; died 1996.
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Laurence SharmaArrived in Victoria in 1863 aboard the Western Ocean, aged 18.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: burial register, 1858 Burial record Surbhi SharmaDied 1991; buried at Gungahlin Cemetery, Canberra, ACT.
ACT Government, Transport Canberra and City Services (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 10 records for Sharma in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · ACT Government, Transport Canberra and City Services (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).
Canada4 records
- City of Calgary cemetery records 3
- Ontario immigration records, 1865–1883 1
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Ann SharmaBuried in 1975 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Girl SharmaBuried in 1976 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
Showing 2 of 4 records for Sharma in Canada.
Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
France2 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Arun Kumar SharmaBorn 1943 in A Katmandou (Népal); died 1999 in Paris.
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 1 of 2 records for Sharma in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
New Zealand1 record
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Example: burial register, 1858 Burial record Om Prakash SharmaDied 1990, aged 60; buried at Avonhead Memorial Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury.
Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0)
Counts: Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sharma.
- Shanklin 3,804 · U.S. census
- Shanks 11,822 · U.S. census
- Shanley 4,511 · U.S. census
- Shannon 46,147 · U.S. census
- Shapiro 24,335 · U.S. census
- Sharkey 8,514 · U.S. census
- Sharp 78,990 · U.S. census
- Sharpe 28,879 · U.S. census
- Shattuck 5,228 · U.S. census
- Shaughnessy 6,117 · U.S. census
- Shaver 16,972 · U.S. census
- Shaw 160,400 · U.S. census
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