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Gender Feminine
Usage English
Scripts שָׁרוֹן(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced Pron. SHAR-ən, SHEHR-ən

Meaning & History

From an Old Testament place name, in Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (Sharon), which means "plain", referring to the fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This is also the name of a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon. It has been in use as a given name since the 1920s, possibly inspired by the heroine in the serial novel The Skyrocket (1925) by Adela Rogers St. Johns [1].