Sharon
Meaning
the plain
The story
Sharon is geography before it is a flower or a first name. The Hebrew Sharon names a fertile coastal plain in Israel and means plain. The biblical phrase rose of Sharon later connected the place with a flowering plant, though the English label now refers to several different species. In Hebrew, Sharon is used for more than one gender. In the English-speaking world it developed mainly as a girls' name from the 1920s, perhaps helped by a heroine in Adela Rogers St. Johns's 1925 serial novel The Skyrocket. The American curve then moved fast: a small beginning in the 1930s, strong growth in the 1940s, a clear peak in the 1950s, and a long decline after the 1960s. Sharon therefore carries two histories at once, an ancient landscape in Hebrew and a distinctly midcentury chapter in American naming.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sharon peaked in the 1950s.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,594 people · the #6,010 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 125,000 · median age 26
Among people named Sharon living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 42 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Sharon
Most people given the name Sharon in the United States were born between 1940 and 1969. The Sharon you meet today is most often in her 60s or 70s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Sharon deep dive
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