Sharona
Feminine · “of the plain of Sharon”
Sharona adds a vowel to a biblical place name that American families had already been using for daughters for a generation. The plain it names is real, it is still farmed, and its name is now attached to a fruit that grows nowhere near it originally.
How old is the name Sharona?
Sharona first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Sharona alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 700 people named Sharona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sharona most popular?
Sharona peaked in 1980, reaching #1677 nationally. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sharon to Sharona
The story of Sharona
The persimmon sold in European shops as Sharon fruit is an Israeli cultivar of an East Asian tree, bred and marketed under the name of the plain where it was first grown commercially. The renaming was a deliberate export decision and it worked: shoppers who would not have bought a persimmon bought a Sharon fruit, and a good many of them still believe the two are different species. The cultivar is genuinely different in one respect — it has been bred and treated to remove the astringency that makes an unripe persimmon unpleasant, so it can be eaten firm — which is the commercial argument for the separate name. The tree is Chinese and Japanese in origin. The plain is in the Levant. The name on the label joins them because the marketing department preferred it to the botany.
Meaning
of the plain of Sharon
The Hebrew name belongs to the coastal plain between the hills and the Mediterranean, and it is a description of the ground rather than a quality. The added final vowel is a modern American device for lengthening a name and carries nothing of its own.
How the name formed
- Sharon
- Sharona
Related forms: Sharona
Pronouncing Sharona
shuh-ROH-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The added vowel shifts the weight off the first syllable, which is where the shorter name carries it, so the two sound noticeably different.
Nicknames for Sharona
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 198068 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1677reached in 1980
- Change vs 2003
- −16.7%5 in 2021, 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.
Sharona in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharona in Hebrew — same name
Sharonas among us
people named Sharona 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
Sharona 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
- Middle stress on three syllables is the easiest rhythm English offers.
- Three short forms come out of it and each is a complete name.
- It is a real place name with a documented and concrete sense.
- Sharon is far commoner and will be written for it.
- The added vowel moves the stress, so the two names are not interchangeable in speech.
- A song fixed this exact spelling in a lot of heads for a long time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sharonas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Sharona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sharona in 2025?
- Sharona is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sharona with classmates?
- Sharona will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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