Sharmon
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sharmon has been given to 465 babies in the U.S. since 1947. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Sharmon, 1978
1 in 635,000
Sharmon over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sharmon?
Sharmon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1978
- 1 in 635,000
- 5 of 3,173,639 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1978
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,961 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sharmon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharmon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sharmons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharmon was born before 1967 — so the typical Sharmon is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 37.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 427
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (173).
Is Sharmon rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (44)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.6% average annual change
Spellings of Sharmon
Sharmon is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 64.7% against Sharmon's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Sharmon is used
Across 1910–2025, Sharmon was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 866,217 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sharmon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sharmon around the world
Where Sharmon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1976–1976#645in 1976
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sharmon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sharmon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sharmon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.