Sharon
Masculine · “the plain”
Sharon is given to girls far more often — 723,024 girls against 3,106 boys since 1880. See Sharon as a girl name
Sharon is a Hebrew word that English writes without changing a letter, which almost nothing else in the language manages. No Latin ending, no French softening, no respelling — the word for a stretch of level country, taken straight off the page of a translation and given to daughters.
How old is the name Sharon?
Sharon first appears in US birth records in 1902 — 123 years ago. The typical Sharon alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 2,100 people named Sharon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharon most popular?
Sharon peaked in 1944, reaching #623 nationally. See the whole 1944 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sharon to Sharon
The story of Sharon
The plain in question was not the pleasant place the name suggests. Before it was drained in the modern period, the Sharon was heavy red sand and swamp, laced with malarial marsh and covered in scrub oak, and armies and traders went around it rather than through it. The coastal road ran along its edge for that reason. What made the name attractive was never the ground but a single verse of poetry about a flower, and the flower in that verse cannot be identified either. A great many names arrive this way: through one memorable line, detached from the thing it describes.
Meaning
the plain
The Hebrew term names a landscape rather than describing a person. It is used with the definite article in the source text, which is to say it means the plain, a specific one.
How the name formed
- sharon
- Sharon
Related forms: Sharon
Pronouncing Sharon
SHAIR-un
Two syllables with the weight at the front. Hebrew says shah-ROHN, back-weighted, and uses it as a unisex name.
Nicknames for Sharon
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
- 1902
- Most boys named
- 194497 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #623reached in 1944
- Change vs 2015
- 0.0%6 in 2022, from 6
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.
Sharon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharon in Hebrew — transliteration
Sharons among us
people named Sharon 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
Sharon 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
- Everyone can spell it and say it on first hearing.
- It is the Hebrew word unchanged, which very few English names can claim.
- It carries several short forms with quite different characters.
- It is a current name in Israel for women and men alike.
- It is one of the most generation-marked names in the language and will place a person in time.
- There are at least six spellings of it in the American record and all will be offered.
- The spelling is recorded for a small number of boys, though it reads overwhelmingly as a girl's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Sharon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharon in 2025?
- Sharon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Sharon with classmates?
- Sharon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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