Sharon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today (Irish first names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 57 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈʃæɹən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Sharon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 583,755 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 72nd. Sharon is also written ሳሮን in Ethiopic, 샤론 in Korean (Hangul) and შარონ in Georgian.
- IEIreland≈1 in 280(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 290
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 310
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sharon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #152 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 610 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 276 (inferred from the name graph)
583,755 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sharon in other scripts: Ethiopic, Korean (Hangul), Georgian and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sharron in NZ New Zealand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Sharon
- English:/ˈʃæɹən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sharon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sharon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #66 | 583,755 | 1 in 570 | 583K | Sharon | 610 |
| GB United Kingdom | #61 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | 25 | Sharon | 365 |
| PH Philippines | #325 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sharon | 145 |
| CA Canada | #62 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | 3 | Sharon | 307 |
| AU Australia | #61 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 91 | Sharon | 303 |
| IE Ireland | #40 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 276 | — | Sharon | 139 |
| SG Singapore | #22 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | — | Sharon | 151 |
| NZ New Zealand | #478 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 313 | 11 | Sharron | 159 |
583,755 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sharon Osbourneb. 1952GBBritish-American television personality
- Sharon Stoneb. 1958USAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Dana Internationalb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)116 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 57 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sharon mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Sharon a male or female name?
- Sharon is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), France (INSEE, 2024) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Sharon?
- In the etymology graph, Sharron, Sharyn and Sheron are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sharon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 583,755 people named Sharon in 2020, about 1 in 570 residents.
- How common is Sharon compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sharon is the 66th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- Which countries have the most people named Sharon?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 584 thousand people named Sharon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharon. After it come United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How do you pronounce Sharon?
- In English /ˈʃæɹən/ (Wiktionary).
What do you want to know about Sharon?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sharonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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” — ranked 72nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.