Sharon

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sharon is a given name, 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 Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 9 countries

#292 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
547 ●

7.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 420 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

SharonLatin · English●7.6M records
샤론Hangul · Korean●254 records
ሳሮንEthiopic · Amharic●191 records
ᲨარონGeorgian · Georgian●7 records
ШарронCyrillic · Ukrainian●1 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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●

Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sharon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#67582,6216.3M rec.1 in 571583KSharon547
GB United Kingdom#57575,886533K rec.—3Sharon272
AU Australia#65298,621217K rec.—91Sharon284
CA Canada#68168,086164K rec.—3Sharon231
PH Philippines#31368,26365K rec.——Sharon131
IT Italy#17055,35648K rec.—108Sharon148
DE Germany#52630,27129K rec.——Sharon165
ZA South Africa#8323,70624K rec.——Sharon131
SG Singapore#1021,71622K rec.——Sharon145
IE Ireland#6419,96920K rec.——Sharon128
EG Egypt#38214,23614K rec.——Sharon25
IN India—9,62017K rec.—52Sharon160

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●

  • English7.6M80%
  • Spanish350K4%
  • 271K3%
  • Swahili258K3%
  • German74K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,551,89680%
Spanish349,6214%
271,1883%
Swahili257,9093%
German73,9631%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sharon is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name594K records spelled Sharon18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Sharón, Shärön, Sha-Ron, Sha'Ron, Sháron

  • a separate given name305K records spelled Sharon2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Sha-Ron

  • Polish given name43K records spelled Sharon52 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Шерон, Sheron, Шарон, Charron, Sharone

  • Chinese given name42K records spelled Sharon8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Myanmar (Burma)

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Sharon ゙, Sharön, Shärön, Sharons, Shâřôn

  • Hebrew given name28K records spelled Sharon60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hebrew, English, Thai

    Also written השרון, שרון, Sharone, Charon, ชารีอัน

  • Indonesian given name28K records spelled Sharon4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Sharon, Sharon'

  • Greek given name17K records spelled Sharon3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Saron, Σαρον

  • Hungarian given name13K records spelled Sharon4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Shårõñ

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sharon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Hebrew; a flat plain; biblical placename.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, A plain in Israel.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, district, Israel; US pi. name; per

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Ariel, Israeli politician

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Nom biblique hébraïque renvoyant à un lieu de l'Ancien Testament; « plaine ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

010K20K30K19001950200029K · 1947

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Sharon in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1900–2025
Yearrecords
19005
19026
19075
19097
19115
19127
191311
19148
191516
191620
191714
191825
191927
192029
192142
192243
192355
192457
192586
1926114
1927118
1928160
1929359
1930523
1931576
1932707
1933961
19341,355
19352,426
19363,573
19374,704
19387,244
19399,014
194011,121
194114,272
194219,648
194324,712
194422,433
194520,838
194627,824
194728,533
194826,143
194925,713
195024,612
195123,920
195223,386
195323,040
195422,220
195522,044
195626,881
195724,298
195821,114
195921,292
196020,414
196120,459
196219,630
196317,800
196416,449
196515,129
196613,063
196711,923
196810,340
19699,698
19709,177
19717,523
19726,111
19734,963
19744,276
19753,732
19763,453
19773,089
19782,755
19792,689
19802,383
19812,154
19822,026
19831,780
19841,630
19851,537
19861,428
19871,249
19881,196
19891,119
19901,008
1991986
1992939
1993851
1994857
1995810
1996862
1997760
1998691
1999685
2000671
2001587
2002537
2003539
2004516
2005501
2006472
2007415
2008479
2009368
2010342
2011323
2012328
2013292
2014314
2015275
2016298
2017243
2018220
2019198
2020208
2021189
2022201
2023173
2024192
2025179

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 119 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sharon Gless, b. 1943Sharon Tate, b. 1943Christa McAuliffe, b. 1948Sharon Osbourne, b. 1952Sharon Stone, b. 1958Sharon Lawrence, b. 1961Dana International, b. 1969Sharon den Adel, b. 1974Sharon Duncan-Brewster, b. 1976Sharon Rooney, b. 1988

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 113 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Sharon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020583K#72
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—9.5K#415
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5.3K#138
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.4K#9,598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.3K#9,134
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.3K#9,543
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.5K#1,792
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.3K#565
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.8K#12
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,010
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.4K#7,525

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 1,408 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sharon?
We estimate roughly 597 thousand people bear Sharon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Sharon have the most bearers?
We estimate about 583 thousand people bear Sharon in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sharon.
How common is Sharon compared with other names?
In the United States, Sharon is the 67th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Sharon a male or female name?
Sharon 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 Sharon mean?
Recorded meaning: Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sharon” — the 67th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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