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Sharona

Girls' name

Form of Sharon

Sharona has been given to 701 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1980, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Sharona, 2021

1 in 678,000

Sharona over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharona: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sharon

Hebrew

What Sharona means

Sharona is a form of Sharon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharona is used in Hebrew and English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃə.ˈɹoʊn.ə/ for Sharona.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sharona → Sharon. The family’s meaning is “the Sharon plain”, recorded in English with the source elements šārōn.

Origin, language, and formation

Sharona is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Sharona comes through Hebrew שָׁרוֹנָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sharon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sharona is pronounced /ʃəˈɹoʊnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 701 girls were recorded with the name Sharona between 1957 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,689 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sharona?

Sharona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharona was born before 1981 — so the typical Sharona is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
701
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (296).

Is Sharona 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (68)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,689
1980

Spellings of Sharona

Sharona is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 72.8% against Sharona's 0.07%.

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 Sharona is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharona was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 671,951 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Sharona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharona around the world

Where Sharona 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • France
    2005–2011
    #6,773
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #1,824
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1975–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sharona by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,689
1980
Peak year
1980
68 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
701
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharona

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sharona

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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