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Girl

Sharon

Rooted in Hebrew, Sharon is a girl's name that means "A plain". It belongs mostly to the 1950s at this point. These days, it is one of the most familiar names around. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

HebrewA plain
HebrewFertile valley
Births by decade
1900s
23
1910s
190
1920s
1,161
1930s
31,394
1940s
221,958
1950s
233,281
1960s
155,393
1970s
48,102
1980s
16,776
1990s
8,598
2000s
5,175
2010s
2,459
Peaked in the 1950s · 724,510 total U.S. births since 1900