Sher — #10139 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sher

The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Sher between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sher currently holds the #10139 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Sher is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 124 additional births since 1953.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sher performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 59 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sher shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sher in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sher in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 168 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.