Sharen
Feminine · “the plain”
Sharen writes a vowel that nobody says. The final syllable of this name has no clear vowel sound at all in English speech, which is why the record carries Sharon, Sharen, Sharyn and Sharin, and why none of them is more correct than the others.
How old is the name Sharen?
Sharen first appears in US birth records in 1934 — 91 years ago. The typical Sharen alive today was born around 1950, making them about 75 years old. About 2,800 people named Sharen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharen most popular?
Sharen peaked in 1943, reaching #532 nationally. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sharon to Sharen
The story of Sharen
One phrase carried this name into English, and it is not quite what people think. The rose of Sharon appears in the Song of Songs, and neither half of it means what a modern reader assumes: the plant is almost certainly not a rose, and botanists have argued for a crocus, a tulip, a narcissus and a lily without settling it, while gardeners in England and America have since attached the phrase to a hibiscus that grows nowhere near the place. The flower stayed famous, the name came with it, and Sharon became an English girls' name in the twentieth century on the strength of a verse whose plant nobody can identify.
Meaning
the plain
The Hebrew sharon is a landscape word for a level, fertile stretch of country, and it names the coastal plain between the hills and the Mediterranean. It is a description that became a place name and then a person's.
How the name formed
- sharon
- Sharon
- Sharen
Related forms: Sharon
Pronouncing Sharen
SHAIR-un
Two syllables with the weight at the front. The second is reduced almost to nothing, which is exactly why it can be spelled with an e, an o, a y or an i.
Nicknames for Sharen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1934
- Most girls named
- 1948197 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #532reached in 1943
- Change vs 2007
- +50.0%12 in 2013, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sharen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharon in Hebrew — transliteration
Sharens among us
people named Sharen are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Sharen sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is said correctly at first sight by anyone who has met the commoner spelling.
- The place behind it is real, mapped and still called by that name.
- It carries several short forms with quite different characters.
- Sharon is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- The name belongs firmly to one American generation.
- The e adds no sound, so the difference exists only on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Sharen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharen in 2025?
- Sharen is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharen with classmates?
- Sharen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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