Sherea
Sherea was last recorded in 1993, when 6 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,179, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1982, the peak
Sherea peaked in 1982, when 19 girls were given it, #4,150 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #13,179 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,224 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,059 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,212 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,930 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,595 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,897 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,151 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,989 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,706 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 12 | #5,770 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,150 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,926 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,930 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,002 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,531 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,143 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,866 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,972 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,985 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,456 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,916 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,270 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,565 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,664 | 3.6 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,855 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherea, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Sherea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 40 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Sherea (228 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 400,721 babies since 1880, Sherea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 103 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sherea
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 Sherea and names like it
- Compare Sherea and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSherea peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Sherea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.