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Sharon

Pronounced /ˈʃæɹən/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1944 · #623
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:190 in 2024 (#1,230)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Sharon in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1944 with 97 babies, ranked #623.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1902.
  • 3,106 boys 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.

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Greatest: 135 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 802 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,013 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 604 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 363 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 157 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 32 babies, 0.00 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.