Entry № 9521 · Hebrew origin

Sharon Sharon — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAIR-on /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Plain of Sharon (peaked #5 in 1943; Sharon Stone, Sharon Tate)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "plain of sharon (peaked #5 in 1943; sharon stone, sharon tate)".

Sharon is from the Hebrew Sharon — the fertile coastal plain between Mount Carmel and the Yarkon River in Israel. The Song of Solomon describes the beloved as "a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys" — the verse from which the name's modern use derives. Sharon Olds (born 1942) — Pulitzer-winning American poet.

Plain of Sharon.

The name in its native script.

שָׁרוֹן
Transliteration
Sharon
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃær.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sharon stands.

Sharon does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sharons before her.

Real people
Sharon Stone
American actress.
born 1958
Sharon Olds
American Pulitzer poet.
born 1942
Sharon Tate
American actress.
1943 – 1969
In fiction
Sharon
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
2019

Names connected to Sharon.

The number behind Sharon.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sharon reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.