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Baby name
Sharon
Girl
Origin of the name
Sharon is a Hebrew place name, that of a fertile plain in Israel, mentioned in the Bible in the phrase “the rose of Sharon.”
Short-lived name
723,024births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 9rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Sharon are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Sharon is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Sharon is most common in District of Columbia (1.8 times), West Virginia (1.6) and North Dakota (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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