Sharon
Sharon reached its high-water mark in 1947 at number 9, and has been recorded 726,130 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,250th. About 545,000 Sharons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sharon boys named Sharon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 726,130
- Estimated living today
- 545,000
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 9th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,250th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 723,024 / 3,106
How old the living Sharons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 726,130 babies given the name since 1900, about 545,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 4,900 of them are children and 347,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (“the Sharon plain”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sharons
- Sharon Stone (born 1958)American actress
- Sharon Tate (1943–1969)American actress and model
- Sharon den Adel (born 1974)Dutch singer
- Sharon Osbourne (born 1952)British-American television personality
- Sharon Gless (born 1943)American actress
- Sharon Lawrence (born 1961)American actress
- Sharon Van Etten (born 1981)American singer-songwriter
- Sharon Corr (born 1970)singer-songwriter from Ireland and member of The Corrs
People named Sharon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sharon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sharon is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (1.9×), West Virginia (1.6×), North Dakota (1.5×), South Dakota (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Sharon peaked:
Sharon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Sharon | 10,375 | 5th |
| Italy girls | Sharon | 7,326 | — |
| New Zealand girls | Sharon | 7,243 | 7th |
| Scotland girls | Sharon | 5,036 | 6th |
| France girls | Sharon | 2,525 | 301st |
| England and Wales girls | Sharon | 1,020 | 559th |
| Belgium girls | Sharon | 769 | 118th |
| Switzerland girls | Sharon | 291 | 189th |
| Norway girls | Sharon | 132 | 334th |
| France boys | Sharon | 45 | 5,789th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Sharon | 35 | 194th |
| Poland girls | Sharon | 4 birth registrations | 516th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sharon: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Sharon | 200 | 0.016% | 155th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sharon | 25 | 0.006% | 406th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Sharon | 66 | 0.101% | 24th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Sharon is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.10% of children were given it – 61 of them.
Sharon: rank by region
In 2020, Sharon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sharon | 839 | 5 |
In 2016, Sharon was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Sharon | 9 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sharon by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Sharon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sharon | 9,532 | 11,521 |
| Finland girls | Sharon | 93 | 137 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sharon | 25 | 83 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sharon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 858 women called Sharon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Sharon | 113 | 0.110 | 742 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Sharon | 48 | 0.087 | 1,049 |
| Palencia | Sharon | 5 | 0.063 | 934 |
| Palmas, Las | Sharon | 37 | 0.063 | 1,450 |
| Málaga | Sharon | 58 | 0.063 | 988 |
| Almería | Sharon | 20 | 0.053 | 1,208 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sharon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.