How Many People Are Named Sharon?
people named Sharon are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 627 people in the US has this name
Based on 726,130 babies named Sharon in Social Security records from 1900 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
ββ Common
Peak Year
28,590 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
π Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an Old Testament place name, in Hebrew Χ©ΧΦΈΧ¨ΧΦΉΧ (Sharon), which means "plain", referring to the fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This is also the name of a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon. It has been in use as a given name since the 1920s, possibly inspired by the heroine in the serial novel 'The Skyrocket' (1925) by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sharon in English. Counting Sharon and these spellings together, about 562,542 people alive in the US have the name.
β§ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Sharon (99.6%) were girls. The share of girls among babies named Sharon rose from 70.4% in the 1910s to 99.5% in the 2020s.
π₯ Age Distribution
The average person named Sharon alive today is about 67 years old, and 78% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 76 in 2025.
π Popularity Over Time
Sharon first appears in the records in 1900 and was given most often in 1947, to 28,590 babies. In 2025, 179 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1900 to 2025
π Rank History
Sharon reached #8 among girls' names in 1943 to 1945, and was in the top 10 for 7 years, 1943 to 1949. In 2025 it ranked #1,256.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,256 |
| Best rank | #8 (1943 to 1945) |
| Years in the top 10 | 7 |
| Years in the top 100 | 43 (1935 to 1977) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #14 in the 1950s |
π State-Wise Distribution
People named Sharon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sharon were born in California than in any other state: about 41,416 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sharon was given 1.4 times as often in Delaware, 1.4 times in Nebraska and 1.3 times in Alaska.
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