Sharon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃæɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sharon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 295(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 320
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 353
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Sources
- 610 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)
583,755 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew name meaning ‘the plain’; well established in Ireland today.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
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 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 320 | 25 | Sharon | 365 |
| EG Egypt | #480 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sharon | 30 |
| IT Italy | #151 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 695 | 108 | Sharon | 152 |
| CA Canada | #62 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 426 | 3 | Sharon | 307 |
| AU Australia | #61 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | 91 | Sharon | 303 |
| IE Ireland | #40 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | — | Sharon | 139 |
| SG Singapore | #22 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | — | Sharon | 151 |
| NZ New Zealand | #478 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | 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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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 Glessb. 1943USAmerican actress
- Sharon Tateb. 1943USAmerican actress and model (1943–1969)
- Christa McAuliffeb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican educator and astronaut
- Sharon Osbourneb. 1952GBBritish-American television personality
- Sharon Stoneb. 1958USAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Sharon Lawrenceb. 1961USAmerican actress
- Dana Internationalb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
- Sharon den Adelb. 1974NLDutch singer
- Sharon Duncan-Brewsterb. 1976GBBritish actress
- Sharon Rooneyb. 1988GBScottish actress
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)
Attested in 116 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 583K | #72 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #72 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 179 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 108 | #198 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1982 | 91 | #88 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1982 | 45 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 14 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 3 | #1,115 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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 in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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.
- 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.
- In which country does Sharon have the most bearers?
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Sharon?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃæɹən/ (IPA) for English.
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” — the 66th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.