first name
SHARON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 583,755 people named Sharon, 79.3% reported their origin as White, 13.2% as Black and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sharon peaked in 1947, when 28,590 babies got the name.
At least 726,130 babies have been given the name since 1900. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Sharon by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #21. The largest share of babies named Sharon, 60.2%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Sharon is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sharon has been most common in District of Columbia (1.9×), West Virginia (1.6×), and South Dakota (1.4×), and least common in Nevada (0.44×).
720,879 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Sharon
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sharon, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Sharon ranks #9,543 of 156,621, with 3,258 people. See Sharon as a last name
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