girls:
3.4k births since 1934
#2979 (48th percentile)
boys:
389 births since 1943
#4197 (8th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1934
#4475 (42nd percentile)
The name Sheron is the #4,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,768 recorded births since 1934. This represents the 42.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,979 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 3,379 births since 1934. For boys, it ranks #4,197 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 389 births since 1943.
Sheron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1934 (1934 for girls and 1943 for boys). Birth data for Sheron is available in 76 out of the 84 years between 1934 and 2017 (68 years for girls and 42 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sheron has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2017, 0.0% of babies named Sheron were girls. Interestingly, until around 1998, the name was more popular for girls (91.4% girls from 1934 to 1997), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (73.0% boys from 1998 to 2017).
For girls, Sheron reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 18.5% percentile (ranked #537) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 80 births per million (ranked 16.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Sheron reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #644) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sheron".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sheron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Sheron is pronounced as SHEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHER-uhn, at 20.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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