Sham
8
Babies in 2024
+60%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 16
-33%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sham
Sham appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #3,015 with 8 girls registered in England & Wales.
Sham reached its peak in 2015, when 16 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,783 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 8 represents 50% of the peak.
Across 14 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 124 girls have been officially registered with the name Sham in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 112 girls were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 8 in 2024.