Sharona — girls' name
701 babies named Sharona in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Sharona was born in this single decade.
68 babies were named Sharona in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sharona
The Social Security Administration has registered 701 babies named Sharona between 1957 and 2021, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sharona currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 68 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sharona performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 296 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sharona shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sharona in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sharona in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 701 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sharona at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sharona popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1957
- Peak year (1980)
- 68
- Annual births at peak — across 65 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
701 total births across 65 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 68 births in a single year.
Sharona by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 296 births that decade — 42% of Sharona's all-time total
Sharona decade highlights
- Peak decade 296 births
- Runner-up 166 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sharona's strongest decade
296 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Sharona by state
Where Sharona concentrates geographically — total births since 1957
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 48 | 6.8% |
| #2 | California | | 12 | 1.7% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 11 | 1.6% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Texas | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #6 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.7% |
48 of 701 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.8% of nationwide
- California 1.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.6% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.9% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1957–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.