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UnisexOrigin: internationalIn Israel: rare

SharonIn Hebrew: שרון · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: שָׁרוֹןRomanization: sharón

Sharon (Hebrew: שרון) is a unisex name of international origin. 20,991 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1974, with 1,269 babies.

People in Israel
20,991
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1974
1,269 babies
USA, 2025
179
rank #1,250

Writing and saying Sharon

In Hebrew letters the name is שרון, read right to left. Sharon is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "sharón" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • Sharon (a plain in Israel)
  • a unisex given name, Sharon
  • a surname
According to Klein by aphesis from *יְשָׁרוֹן (y'sharón, “the plain”), from יָשַׁר (yashár, “straight”). Compare מִישׁוֹר (mishór, “plain, plane”) and ישורון / יְשֻׁרוּן (y'shurún) from the same י־שׁ־ר (y-sh-r) root.

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Sharon by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Sharon: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Sharon in English-speaking countries

Sharon in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025179#1,2501947 (28,533)
United Kingdom202513#2,2062008 (70)
England and Wales202513#2,1372007 (65)
Alberta20253#1,2281983 (24)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Sharon has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Sharon

How do you write Sharon in Hebrew?

Sharon is written שרון in Hebrew (with vowel points: שָׁרוֹן). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "sharón".

How many people in Israel are named Sharon?

20,991 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name שרון: 13,737 women and 7,254 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Sharon a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 65% of the people named שרון are women and 35% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Sharon mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "Sharon (a plain in Israel)" Etymology: According to Klein by aphesis from *יְשָׁרוֹן (y'sharón, “the plain”), from יָשַׁר (yashár, “straight”). Compare מִישׁוֹר (mishór, “plain, plane”) and ישורון / יְשֻׁרוּן (y'shurún) from the same י־שׁ־ר (y-sh-r) root.

Is Sharon used outside Israel?

The name Sharon appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 179 girls were given it in 2025 (#1,250), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 13 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.