Sharon

Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן‎ (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).

• enPR: shă'rən, IPA^(key): /ˈʃæɹən/
• Rhymes: -ærən

Sharon

1. A plain in Israel.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Song of Solomon 2:1:

     I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2. A female given name derived from the biblical place name.
   • 1927 Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 183:

     My name is Katie Jonas. I was born in Utica. My dad worked on a brickyard. I picked out the name Sharon Falconer while I was a stenographer.

   • 2001 Deborah Cameron, Working With Spoken Discourse, SAGE, →ISBN, page 157:

     The group suggested a number of reasons why a girl might not fit in to their community - for instance, if she wore white socks and had a name like 'Sharon'.

3. Any of a number of places in the US and Canada named after the biblical place.
4. A surname​.

• Popular given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Sharon Springs

• Shaz
• Shazza

Sharon (plural Sharons)

1. (Britain, derogatory, slang) A working-class female.
   • 2005, Birgitte Tufte, ‎Jeanette Rasmussen, ‎Lars Bech Christensen, Frontrunners Or Copycats? (page 83), quoting a 17-year-old girl

     'Cos all the Sharons go with the Rocker type of skaters - because I've got friends who are really good friends with Sharons and they are skaters. And you don't hold it against them that they are Sharons and they are rockers.

• Kev

• Kevin
• Wikipedia article on Ariel Sharon

• Roshan, rhason

From English Sharon, from Hebrew שָׁרוֹן‎ (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).

Sharon

1. a female given name
2. (biblical) a plain in Israel