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Sharon ( ''), also spelled Saron, is a as well as a name.

In areas, Sharon is now predominantly a feminine given name, but historically it was also used as a masculine given name. In , it is used as both.

Etymology
The Hebrew word simply means "plain", as in a flat area of land. Strong's Concordance H8289 But in the , שָׁרוֹן is the name specifically given to the fertile plain between the and the coast, known (tautologically) as in English. The phrase "rose of Sharon" (חבצלת השרון ḥăḇaṣṣeleṯ ha-sharon) occurs in the translation of the Song of Songs ("I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley"), and has since been used in reference to a number of flowering plants.

Unlike other that have come to be used almost exclusively as feminine (e.g. Evelyn), Sharon was never predominantly a masculine name. Usage before 1925 is very rare and was apparently inspired either by the Biblical toponym or one of the numerous places in the United States named after the Biblical plain.

Usage history
Use as a feminine name began in the early 20th century, first entering the statistics of the 1,000 most common given names in the United States in 1925. Its inspiration was possibly the heroine of Adela Rogers St. Johns's serial novel The Skyrocket, published in 1925 and made into a starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce in 1926.

The name's popularity in the U.S. steeply increased in the mid-1930s. Sharon peaked during the 1940s and remained a top-10 name for most of that decade. The variant Sharron is on record from the 1930s to the 1970s. Its peak popularity in the U.S. was in 1943. The more eccentric spelling Sharyn was popular for a brief time in the 1940s and peaked in 1945.

The name's popularity has steadily declined since the 1940s, except for a slight rise in the late 1950s. It fell out of the top 100 after 1977, out of the top 500 after 2001, and out of the top 1,000 names for American girls after 2016. Popular Baby Names ; socialsecurity.gov; accessed 1 January 2015.

In the , its popularity peaked during the 1960s. It was the 10th most popular female name by 1964 and was still as high as 17th in 1974 (when it was 70th in the U.S.), but a sharp decline in popularity followed. Since the 1980s, the name has not been in the top 100. Sharon - Meaning And Origin Of The Name Sharon, BabyNames.co.uk; accessed 1 January 1, 2015. Names that with Sharon, such as and Karen, were also popular in the during the same period.

In the 1980s, Sharon was as a "" name in the United Kingdom, signifying a girl who works in a . By the 2010s, the name had become associated with at women who complain to authority figures. The stereotype has been attributed to and age discrimination and caused difficulty for women named Sharon.

While appearing on the 's Celebrity Mastermind, contestant was asked to name the Swedish teenage climate activist who wrote a book titled No One's Too Small to Make a Difference. Henderson answered, "Sharon". After the broadcast, climate activist (the correct response to the question) changed her name to Sharon on her bio (which remained there for the day: 3 January 2020).

People with the given name
Feminine given name
  • (born 1986), American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.
  • , Canadian singer and cantor
  • (1949–2023), Canadian-American women's rights activist, advocate, and feminist
  • Sharon Beasley-Teague (born 1952), American politician
  • (1956–2021), American journalist
  • , British charity founder
  • (born 1962), Australian politician
  • , Canadian politician
  • Sharon Block, several people
  • (born 1953), British politician
  • Sharon Bridgforth (born 1958), American writer
  • (born 1964), Canadian female bodybuilder and fitness competitor
  • Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush (born 1952), American TV personality
  • (born 1959), American artist and arts writer
  • , American cinematographer
  • , British diplomat
  • (born 1979), Belizean-British murderer
  • (born 1971), American actress
  • (born 1979), Hong Kong actress and model
  • (born 1961), American singer-songwriter and artist
  • , Hong Kong journalist and entrepreneur
  • (born 1984), Kenyan long-distance runner
  • , Malawian author and television personality
  • (born 1994/1995), Korean-American interpreter and filmmaker
  • (1950–2015), Canadian artist
  • Sharon Church (1948–2022), American studio jeweler, metalsmith, and educator
  • Sharon D. Clarke (born 1966), English actress and singer
  • (born 1964), Australian politician
  • Sharon Cohen (born 1972), more commonly known as Dana International, an Israeli pop singer
  • (born 1965), American artist and photographer
  • (born 1970), Irish musician and member of The Corrs
  • (born 1945), author of children's books Walk Two Moons and Ruby Holler
  • (born 1966), Filipina actress and host of the Sharon talk show
  • Sharon Davis, several people
  • Sharon Day-Monroe (born 1985), American heptathlete, pentathlete and high jumper
  • Sharon den Adel (born 1974), co-founder of and singer for Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation
  • (born 1971), Dutch politician
  • (born 1987), Dutch singer
  • Sharon M. Draper (born 1948), American children's writer, educator, and teacher
  • (born 1962), Swedish singer, actress and voice actress
  • (born 1968), CNBC correspondent
  • (born 1963), American director of
  • (1940–2023), American actress and dancer
  • (born 1990), Canadian/Israeli tennis player
  • (born 1946), American swimmer
  • , American politician
  • Sharon Lee Gallegos (1955–1960), American murder victim
  • (born 1961), English javelin thrower
  • (born 1943), American actress
  • (born 1949), American artist
  • (1942–2022), American author
  • Sharon Hampson (born 1943), Canadian singer
  • (born 1965), American heptathlete
  • , Canadian politician
  • Sharon Hayes (politician) (born 1948), Canadian politician
  • (born 1966), British politician
  • (born 1970), Irish comedy writer
  • (1944–1996), American actress
  • (born 1968), Australian-Dutch athlete
  • , New Zealand architect
  • (1956–2016), American singer
  • (born 1960), American film and television actress
  • (born 2003), Israeli world champion windsurfer
  • (born 1953), American judge
  • (born 1939), American fugitive
  • (born 1983), Dutch singer
  • (born 1959), American rabbi
  • (born 1961), American television actress
  • (born 1972), American actress and director
  • Sharon Lee, several people
  • Sharon G. Lee (born 1952), American judge
  • , South African politician
  • , American statistician
  • Sharon Garcia Magdayao (born 1975), known professionally as , Filipina actress and singer
  • (born 1960), British film director
  • , New Zealand financier
  • Sharon Lee Myers (born 1941), stage name , American singer
  • (born 1981), American drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 4
  • (born 1969/70), Brigadier of the British Army
  • (born 1942), American poet
  • Sharon O'Neill (born 1952), New Zealand singer-songwriter and pianist
  • (born 1952), English music promoter and TV personality, wife and manager of
  • (born 1944), American politician and attorney
  • Sharron Prior (died 1975), Canadian murder victim
  • (born 1960), American artist
  • Sharon Quirk-Silva (born 1962), American politician
  • (1945–1992), American singer
  • (born 1966), British judoka
  • (born 1988), Scottish actress
  • (born 1968), Irish musician
  • , American gymnast
  • Sharon Shaw (1957–1971), American murder victim
  • , Irish historian
  • Sharon Hartman Strom, American historian
  • Sharon Alaina Stephen (born 1987), Malaysian actress
  • (born 1958), American actress, model and producer
  • (1943–1969), American actress
  • Sharon Tyler Herbst (1942–2007), American chef and author
  • , American politician
  • Sharon Van Etten (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
  • (born c.1963), American journalist
  • Sharon Weston Broome (born 1956), American politician
  • Sharon Witherspoon, British statistician
  • Sharon White (born 1967), British businesswoman and civil servant
  • , Israeli film director
  • (born 1946), American academic
  • (1954/55–2015), American mystery novelist

Masculine given name

People with the surname
Sharon was adopted as a surname by in the context of the Hebrew revival in the early 20th century, and has since become a heritable .
  • (born Ludwig Kurzmann, 1900–1984), Israeli architect
  • (born Ariel Scheinermann, 1928–2014), Israeli prime minister. gave him the surname "Sharon" in c. 1948.Freedland, Jonathan (January 3, 2014). "Ariel Sharon's final mission might well have been peace", The Guardian. ("his name was given to him by Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion – turning the young Scheinerman into Sharon")
  • (born Abraham Schwadron, 1878–1957), Israeli intellectual
  • , Australian actress, director, and producer
  • (born 1937), Israeli scholar of Islamic history and civilization, author i.a. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, a work in progress planned to contain all ancient Arabic inscriptions found in the Holy Land
  • (born 1964), Israeli politician, son of Ariel Sharon
  • (born 1970), Israeli Olympic artistic gymnast
  • (born 1970), Israeli actor, standup comedian and singer
  • , American stage director

Pseudonym
  • , stage name of Kurk Richard Toohey (born 1967), American singer, musician, producer

Fictional characters
  • Sharon (シャロン), a character from the Street Fighter EX series
  • Sharon, a character in the 1981 American made-for-television movie Fallen Angel
  • Sharon, a character in the 2001 American made-for-television drama movie A Girl Thing
  • Sharon, a character in the 2022 American drama The Listener
  • Sharon Baker, a character in the 2015 American comedy-drama movie The Breakup Girl
  • Sharon Bates, a character in the 2002 American comedy Hollywood Ending
  • Sharon Benson, in Argentine Disney Channel telenovela
  • , a Marvel Comics character
  • Sharon Charles, main character of the 2009 film Obsessed
  • Sharon Collins Newman, a character in the daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless
  • Sharon Cooper, a character in the 1982 musical film Grease 2
  • , a character in the Australian soap opera
  • Sharon, a magazine character
  • Sharon Jellinsky, a minor character in the film Addams Family Values
  • Sharon Kaneko, a supporting character in the anime and manga series Space Brothers (manga)
  • Sharon Kaur, a character played by Jez Dhillon in the British web series Corner Shop Show
  • , a character on South Park
  • , a character from The Ghost and Molly McGee
  • Sharon McKendrick, one of the two main characters in the 1961 American romantic comedy The Parent Trap
  • , fictional character from The Young and the Restless
  • Sharon Norbury, in
  • Sharon Potter, a character on the American TV sitcom Get a Life (1990–1992)
  • Sharon Rainworth, a character in the manga and anime series
  • Sharon Strzelecki, a character from Kath & Kim
  • Sharon Esther Spitz, the protagonist of the Canadian animated TV series
  • Sharon Thompson (born 1983), a character created by The Agent in early 2023. She is the mother of late Shelby Thompson
  • , a character from Battlestar Galactica
  • Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, a character from The Grapes of Wrath
  • Sharon Rai Prakash, a character from the Indian series Dil Dosti Dance
  • , a character from the British soap opera

See also
  • Sharen Gravelle, American woman indicted for child abuse
  • Sharen Jester Turney (born 1956), American global business leader

Placenames
  • Sharon, Ontario, Canada
  • Sharon, Connecticut
  • Sharonville, Ohio
  • Sharon, Pennsylvania
  • Sharon Springs, New York
  • Sharon Springs, Kansas
  • Sharon, Massachusetts
  • Sharon, New Jersey
  • Sharon, Vermont
  • Sharon, South Carolina
  • Sharon, Georgia
  • Sharon, North Dakota
  • Sharon, Queensland, Australia

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