When Michael Charles Sharp was born on 22 December 1949, in Alabama, United States, his father, James Clayton Sharp, was 45 and his mother, Jessie Christine Bailes, was 41. He lived in Election Precinct 2 Alexandria, Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1950 and Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 2000. He died on 29 August 2017, at the age of 67, and was buried in Forrest Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
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