Popularity of the name Sharon, 1900–2025

Sharon was at its most popular in 1943, when 24,712 girls were given the name: about 1 in 56 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #8. In 2025, 179 girls were named Sharon, ranking #1,250. In all, Social Security counts 723,024 girls named Sharon since 1900. Social Security’s records also list 3,106 boys named Sharon.

Peak year

1943

Rank in 1943

#8

Babies in 1943

24,712

Rank in 2025

#1,250

Total since 1900

723,024

Where it stands now

In the past decade the name slipped from #982 in 2015 to #1,250 in 2025: 275 girls got it in 2015, and 179 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Its best decade was the 1940s, when 221,237 girls were named Sharon, #8 for the decade. It ranked #2,535 in the 1900s and #1,235 in the 2020s so far.

Every 20 years in the records: 5 in 1900 (#1,932), 29 in 1920 (#1,511), 11,121 in 1940 (#17), 20,414 in 1960 (#16), 2,383 in 1980 (#129), 671 in 2000 (#421) and 208 in 2020 (#1,140).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 28,533, in 1947. That is not its peak year: Social Security’s records hold more girls for 1947 than for 1943, so the name’s share of births was smaller. Its best rank, #8, came in its peak year.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1900 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Sharon, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.