Sharon

Where Sharon comes from

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sharon
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Sharon through the years
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,932 among girls with 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 on, more girls have.
  3. 1943
    Sharon Tate born
    American actress and model
  4. 1943
    Peak, #8
    24,712 babies named Sharon, its best rank.
  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.