Sharon
A Hebrew name meaning "plain", the kind of open, level ground you can see across. In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 500 people carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Sharon Pronunciation
What Sharon means
Where Sharon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sharon begins in Hebrew, as the name of a fertile plain along the coast of ancient Israel, the stretch of level ground between Jaffa and Mount Carmel. The Hebrew word means plain. It named an expanse of flat, open land. That geography is the origin, and the name pointed to a place long before it pointed to a person.
The Song of Songs speaks of the rose of Sharon, a wildflower of that plain, and the phrase drew the name into English and Jewish tradition alike. In English-speaking countries Sharon grew into a common given name across the twentieth century, most of all in the decades after the Second World War.
Sharon has no Polish diminutives and no fixed imieniny in the calendar. A teacher reading it from a class register meets something plainly foreign, and the meaning under it stays just as plain: równina, a flat and open plain.
How many people are named Sharon
1 in 54586 women in Poland is named Sharon. 483 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1340 among female names.
Sharon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sharon as a middle name
Sharon is a first name for 483 women in Poland and a middle name for another 68, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 819th, between Rivka (68) and Sofija (68).
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#817 Lubomiła68
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#818 Rivka68
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#819 Sharon68
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#820 Sofija68
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#821 Su68