Sharon

Sharon is the 9,543rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,258 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 91,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,258
Rank: 9,543rd
How common: 1 in 91,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (“the Sharon plain”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sharon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Sharon

Ariel Sharon (1928–2014)Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Arieh Sharon (1900–1984)Israeli architect
Omri Sharon (born 1964)Israeli politician
William Sharon (1821–1885)American politician

People named Sharon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sharon

Also a first name

Sharon has been given to 726,130 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.