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Sharon
Pronounced /ˈʃæɹən/
Rank in 2024
#1,230
Born in 2024
190
Peak year
1947 · #9
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 190 girls were named Sharon, about 1 in every 8,490.
- It peaked in 1947 with 28,533 babies, ranked #9.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 722,841 girls have been named Sharon since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Sharon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 7.0Silent1928–45
- 12.2Boomers1946–64
- 4.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 689 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 144,624 babies, 7.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 435,770 babies, 12.17 per 1,000. Gen X: 110,304 babies, 4.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 20,434 babies, 0.72 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,214 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,801 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).
- A female given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
- A unisex given name from Hebrew derived from the biblical place name.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈʃæɹən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Sharon, CC BY-SA 4.0.