Charron
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charron is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: maker of carts, from OF charron cart (L carro, gen.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 359◐
- AUAustralia1 in 388
- IEIreland1 in 467
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈597K ●
- #292 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 547 ●
- 1 in 420 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.9M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sharon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 21 more and Sharron in NZ New Zealand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
maker of carts, from OF charron cart (L carro, gen. carronis, a deriv. of carrum cart; cf. Carman). Habitation names (from i): Pol.: Karolewski, Kartowski. Czech: Karlovsky. Carron (Normandy; see also Charrandier (with added agent suffix). Vars.:
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #67 | 582,621 | 6.3M rec. | 1 in 571 | 583K | Sharon | 547 |
| GB United Kingdom | #57 | 575,886 | 533K rec. | — | 3 | Sharon | 272 |
| AU Australia | #65 | 298,621 | 217K rec. | — | 91 | Sharon | 284 |
| CA Canada | #68 | 168,086 | 164K rec. | — | 3 | Sharon | 231 |
| PH Philippines | #313 | 68,263 | 65K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 131 |
| IT Italy | #170 | 55,356 | 48K rec. | — | 108 | Sharon | 148 |
| DE Germany | #526 | 30,271 | 29K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 165 |
| ZA South Africa | #83 | 23,706 | 24K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 131 |
| SG Singapore | #10 | 21,716 | 22K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 145 |
| IE Ireland | #64 | 19,969 | 20K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 128 |
| EG Egypt | #382 | 14,236 | 14K rec. | — | — | Sharon | 25 |
| IN India | — | 9,620 | 17K rec. | — | 52 | Sharon | 160 |
Roughly 583K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 571). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English42K49%
- French36K42%
- Spanish2.3K3%
- 9421%
- German6181%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 41,918 | 49% |
| French | 35,842 | 42% |
| Spanish | 2,338 | 3% |
| 942 | 1% | |
| German | 618 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Charron is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, wheelwright
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de charron, surnom d’après le métier.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 16 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 19 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1944–2008. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pierre Charronb. 1541FRFrench theologian and philosopher
- Fernand Charronb. 1866FRFrench pioneer of motor racing (1866–1928)
- Fernand Charronb. 1884FRFrench physicist
- Joseph Charronb. 1939USCatholic bishop
- Claude Charronb. 1946CACanadian politician
- Guy Charronb. 1949CACanadian ice hockey player and coach
- Louise Charronb. 1951CACanadian judge
- Al Charronb. 1966CACanadian rugby union footballer
- Éric Charronb. 1970CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Maude Charronb. 1993CACanadian weightlifter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,419 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 990 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 867 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 836 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 809 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 759 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 728 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 666 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 578 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Charron?
- We estimate roughly 597 thousand people bear Charron (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Charron have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 583 thousand people bear Charron in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sharon.
- How common is Charron compared with other names?
- In the United States, Charron is the 67th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Charron mean?
- Recorded meaning: maker of carts, from OF charron cart (L carro, gen.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Charron” — the 67th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.