Sharona
Sharona was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 701 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sharona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sharona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sharona is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
From Hebrew שָׁרוֹנָה.
/ʃəˈɹoʊnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sharona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,319, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1980, the peak
Sharona peaked in 1980, when 68 girls were given it, #1,689 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,319 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,451 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,527 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,614 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,464 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,455 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,670 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,592 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,900 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,410 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 17 | #5,637 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,595 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,144 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,695 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,338 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,596 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,630 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,921 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,961 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,506 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,966 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,327 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,843 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,689 | 41.0 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,380 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,497 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,396 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,122 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,909 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,004 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,507 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,748 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,911 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,009 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,879 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,136 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,705 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,219 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,941 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,843 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,442 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,865 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,291 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sharona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sharona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sharona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sharona, and how old are they?
An estimated 669 Americans named Sharona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 859 people named Sharona (858 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 673 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,701 babies since 1880, Sharona is the third most given (15% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sharona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sharona and names like it
- Compare Sharona and SharinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSharona peaked in 1980.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sharona since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Sharona: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Sharona.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sharona alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.