Sharon

Where Sharon comes from

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sharon
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,932 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1943
    Sharon Tate born
    American actress and model
  4. 1943
    Peak, #8
    24,712 babies named Sharon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1958
    Sharon Stone born
    American actress
  6. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #30.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
  • A unisex given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
Namesakes
  • Sharon Stone · American actress, born 1958
  • Sharon Tate · American actress and model, 1943–1969
  • Sharon den Adel · Dutch singer, born 1974
  • Sharon Osbourne · British-American television personality, born 1952
  • Sharon Gless · American actress, born 1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.