My name is Sharla. I was named after my mother's childhood through college friend. I was always told that Sharla was chosen as a female variant of Charles.
Sharla Boehm (née Perrine) is an American computer scientist who carried out pioneering work in packet switching while working for the RAND Corporation in the 1960s.
My name is Sharla and I've never met anyone with the same name as me. It's pretty unqiue. I hated it as a kid but now that I'm grown up I love how different it is!