Sherard
Sherard was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 537 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,743, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1975, the peak
Sherard peaked in 1975, when 24 boys were given it, #1,992 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,743 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #12,045 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,794 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,719 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,628 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,975 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,453 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,184 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,856 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,340 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 11 | #5,590 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,355 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,877 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,394 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,148 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,291 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,428 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,628 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,231 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,495 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,385 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,081 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,360 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,423 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,893 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,807 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,662 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,937 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,881 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,263 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,645 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,804 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,992 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,259 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,199 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,522 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,038 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,720 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,547 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,072 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,909 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherard, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Sherard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 34 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 456 people named Sherard (16 women and girls, 440 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,085 babies since 1880, Sherard is the third most given (17% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sherard
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sherard and names like it
- Compare Sherard and SherrodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSherard peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherard since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Sherard.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherard alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.