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Sheron

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sheron has been given to 3,768 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1946, with 128 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Sheron, 2005

1 in 769,000

Sheron over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sheron over time

In 2017, Sheron went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19342017

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sheron: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sheron means

Sheron is a given name.

The naming story behind Sheron

Wikidata records Sheron as a given name. The entity identifier is Q98930320, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,379 girls were recorded with the name Sheron between 1934 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1946; its best national rank was #714 in 1946.

In the United States, 389 boys were recorded with the name Sheron between 1943 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,194 in 1975.

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.

How common is Sheron?

Sheron had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheron 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheron was born before 1956 — so the typical Sheron is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,288
People you could plausibly meet
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1940s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (960).

Is Sheron 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 1946 (128)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#714
1946

Spellings of Sheron

Sheron is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 56.9% against Sheron's 0.27%.

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 Sheron is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sheron was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 93,275 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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. Sheron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Sheron is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sheron was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,024,911 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sheron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sheron around the world

Where Sheron 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.

  • France
    1994–2000
    #4,767
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1948–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sheron

People whose public names include Sheron, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sheron 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
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Best rank ever
#714
1946
Peak year
1946
128 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
3,379
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,194
1975
Peak year
1975
21 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
389
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sheron

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

SherronSheylaShelbiShearonSherlyShelbieSherieSheilyShelbaShealynSherlynSheenaSheinaShekinahShelsyShelliSheridanSheritaShennaSherrylSherlinAaronKameronShella

Names with a curve like Sheron

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sheron, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SusannLarryPaulettaLonnaSuzannGarySuellenKarrenJerilynMickieKarylKaron

Sibling names for Sheron

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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