Sharon is a Hebrew place name, the fertile coastal "plain" of Israel praised in the Bible, and the "rose of Sharon" in the Song of Songs turned it into a girls' name among English Puritans. It was a top 10 name in the United States in the 1940s and belongs to actress Sharon Stone and singer Sharon Osbourne. Sharon ranked number 421 in 2000, dropped out of the top 1000 in 2017 and sits at number 1,256 in 2025.