Sharon
A surname most likely taken from the biblical place-name Sharon, the fertile plain mentioned in the Old Testament.
The #9,598 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 91,210 Americans shares it.
Etymology
This surname is generally understood as coming from the place-name Sharon, from Hebrew Šārôn, the name of a level, fertile plain in ancient Palestine. In the Bible, Sharon is associated with beauty and abundance, which helped make the name familiar in Christian tradition. As a surname, it would most naturally have begun as a locational or ornamental name drawn from that well-known place-name rather than from an English occupational root.
History
In English-speaking countries, Sharon appears mainly as a later surname and also, very commonly, as a given name inspired by the biblical plain and the phrase 'rose of Sharon.' The historical excerpts you provided mention Sharon largely as an example name rather than as a fully glossed surname entry, so the etymology here rests mostly on the established biblical place-name. It is more familiar today as a first name than as a surname.
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Fun fact
The phrase 'rose of Sharon' from the Song of Songs helped make Sharon widely recognizable far beyond surname use.
From the historical record
“The ordinary names of the Anglo-Saxons "were imposed," says Sharon Turner ('Hist, of the A. -Saxons,' IV. 47), "as with us, in their infancy, by their parents. In several charters it is mentioned that the persons therein alluded to had been called from their cradles by the names expressed, and which they had…”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)