Gender Feminine & Masculine
Scripts שׁרון (Hebrew)
Meaning & History
From an Old Testament place name, in Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (Sharon) meaning "plain" [1] , referring to a fertile plain on the central west coast of Israel. This is also the name of a flowering plant in the Bible, the rose of Sharon, a term now used to refer to several different species of flowers.It has been in use as a feminine given name in the English-speaking world since the 1920s, possibly inspired by the heroine in the serial novel The Skyrocket (1925) by Adela Rogers St. Johns [2] . As a Hebrew name it is unisex.
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h8289, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h8289.
- Evans, Cleveland Kent. The Great Big Book of Baby Names. Publications International, 2006, page 572.
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