Sharron

Where Sharron comes from

Sharron hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1943
    Peak, #226
    870 babies named Sharron — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1949
    Sharron Angle born
    former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007
  4. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #416.
  5. 1962
    Sharron Davies born
    British swimmer and politician
  6. 2012
    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.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sharron Angle · former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007, born 1949
  • Sharron Davies · British swimmer and politician, born 1962
  • Sharron Miller · American film director
  • Sharron Proulx-Turner · Canadian Métis poet and author, 1953–2016

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.