Sharona

  • [ shə-RON-ə ]
  • English (Rare)
Elaborated form of SHARON.

SHARON   female   English
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.
EQUIVALENTS
ENGLISH: Sharon, Sharron, Sharyn
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
ENGLISH: Shari