Sharon
Sharon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 190 births. Its best rank was 8th, in 1943–1945.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1900.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 194728,533 births
- Best rank
- #8first in 1943
- Since 1900
- 725,947people given the name
The story in the numbers
722,841 girls have been named Sharon in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 28,533 births — 1.6% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 190 births in 2024, against 28,533 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 32%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100 and 7 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,106 boys have also been given it, 0.43% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sharon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 17 | |
| 1910s | 133 | |
| 1920s | 1,063 | |
| 1930s | 31,083 | |
| 1940s | 221,236 | |
| 1950s | 232,809 | |
| 1960s | 154,897 | |
| 1970s | 47,771 | |
| 1980s | 16,504 | |
| 1990s | 8,449 | |
| 2000s | 5,085 | |
| 2010s | 2,833 | |
| 2020s | 961 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Sharon was the 9th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Sharon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sandrapeak 1947
- Karonpeak 1948
- Sharanpeak 1947
- Diannpeak 1947
- Diannepeak 1947
- Paulettapeak 1948
- Merrileepeak 1942
- Karylpeak 1944
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.