Saron
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saron is a given name, most frequently recorded in Eritrea, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in gamelan music.
- EREritrea1 in 8◐
- PKPakistan1 in 167K
- USUnited States1 in 289K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.8K ●
- Sources
- 147 ●
- 1 in 34K ◐
across 7 countries
9.3K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in gamelan music.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ER Eritrea | #1 | 5,100 | 12 rec. | — | 771 | Saron | 6 |
| IN India | — | 2,467 | 1.4K rec. | — | 28 | Saron | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,150 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 289K | 1.1K | Saron | 147 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,121 | 1 rec. | — | — | Saron | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 299 | 177 rec. | 1 in 34K | 299 | Saron | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 268 | 273 rec. | — | — | Saron | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 240△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 882K | 240 | Saron | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 209 | 134 rec. | — | 2 | Saron | 29 |
| KE Kenya | — | 152 | 34 rec. | — | — | Saron | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 142 | 443 rec. | — | 1 | Saron | 37 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | 135 | 127 rec. | — | — | Saron | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | 116 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Saron | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic5.3K25%
- English4.3K20%
- Portuguese3K14%
- Hindi2.1K10%
- Spanish1.3K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 5,259 | 25% |
| English | 4,311 | 20% |
| Portuguese | 3,026 | 14% |
| Hindi | 2,059 | 10% |
| Spanish | 1,346 | 6% |
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●
Saron is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1929 | 3 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 7 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 4 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 12 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 3 |
| 1944 | 11 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 15 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 11 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 12 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 15 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 4 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 4 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 3 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 3 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 18 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 1 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2013 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1918–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sharon Glessb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Sharon Tateb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and model (1943–1969)
- Christa McAuliffeb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican educator and astronaut
- Sharon Osbourneb. 1952GBnot in their usual nameBritish-American television personality
- Sharon Stoneb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Sharon Lawrenceb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Dana Internationalb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
- Sharon den Adelb. 1974NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer
- Sharon Duncan-Brewsterb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Sharon Rooneyb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameScottish actress
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 50 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #9,984 |
| ER Eritrea | The page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org. | 1880 | 771 | #4 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 438 | #2,747 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 299 | #3,942 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 240 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 232 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 227 | #23,475 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 206 | #9,984 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 138 | #22,328 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #22,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 69 | #6,946 |
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 · 310 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saron?
- We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Saron (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saron have the most bearers?
- Saron is most frequently recorded in Eritrea, where it is most often spelled saron.
- How common is Saron compared with other names?
- In Eritrea, Saron is the most common given name of 73 given names recorded there.
- Is Saron a male or female name?
- Saron is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Saron mean?
- Recorded meaning: A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in gamelan music.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saron” — the most common given name in Eritrea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.