Name: Sharon
Gender: Female
Usage: Sharon, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Sharon are in general originating from Belgium, France, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Sharon is: The plains, A flat clearing.
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Numerology of the first name Sharon: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Sharon is ranked on the 102nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 4808500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.066% of the population. The name Sharon has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Sharon for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Sharon (Hebrew: שָׁרוֹן, Tiberian Hebrew: Šārôn) is a female name that can be spelled with one "r" or two (Sharron).
In some countries (like Israel), Sharon is a unisex name.
It derives from an Israelite place name meaning "forest" in Hebrew, referring to a fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This gives its name to a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon.
Sharon is one of many names that could formerly be applied to males (as in the 19th-century historian Sharon Turner), but is now nearly always used of females (cf. Vivian, Ashley, Beverly, etc.).
It began being used as a female name sometime in the early part of the 20th century, first being listed as one of the 1000 most popular names for females born in the United States in 1925. By the mid-1940s, it had become an extremely popular name for newborn American girls, remaining a top 10 name for most of the decade, peaking at #8 in both 1943 and 1945. Its popularity began to steadily decline thereafter; the name fell out of the top 100 after 1977, and out of the top 500 after 2001.
In the United Kingdom 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, but a sharp decline in popularity followed and since the 1980s it has not even featured in the top 100.
English: a 20th-century coinage, from a biblical placename. The derivation is from the phrase ‘I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys’ (Song of Solomon 2: 1). The plant name ‘rose of Sharon’ is used for a shrub of the genus Hypericum, with yellow flowers, and for a species of hibiscus, with purple flowers. Rosasharn (Rose of Sharon) is the name of one of the characters in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1936).
Variant: Sharron.
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4 January 2015
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
19 December 2014
Although I am very aware that most names are unisex, this is the first that mentions sharon as a unisex name.
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