Shereen
Shereen was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,587 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Shereen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 35 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shereen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shereen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shereen is “Alternative form of Sherine (“female given name”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shereen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,621, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1984, the peak
Shereen peaked in 1984, when 47 girls were given it, #2,140 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,621 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,649 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,255 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,420 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,628 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,294 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,276 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,693 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,177 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,412 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 12 | #8,748 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,915 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,663 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,842 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,324 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,192 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,855 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,760 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,426 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,095 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,023 | 21.2 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,870 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,140 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,147 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,785 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,843 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,191 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,643 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,140 | 27.9 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,134 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,633 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,648 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,489 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,661 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,461 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,372 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,477 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,733 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,900 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,163 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,731 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,332 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,840 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,501 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,938 | 23.8 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,484 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,908 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,825 | 22.7 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,145 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,351 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,151 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,062 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,711 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,448 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,442 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,408 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,242 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,202 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,465 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,962 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,173 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,333 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,262 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,857 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,320 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,880 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,597 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,972 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,838 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shereen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shereen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shereen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shereen, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,587 Americans ever recorded as Shereen. The median Shereen alive today is 46 years old; half are between 35 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 2,367 people named Shereen (2,355 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,500 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 258 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 472 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 539 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 173 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shereen born?
The states with the most babies named Shereen are California, New York and Illinois, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 241 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Shereen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shereen is most over-represented in California: since 1937 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shereen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,299 babies since 1880, Shereen is the third most given (14% 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 Shereen
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 Shereen and names like it
- Compare Shereen and SheronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShereen peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shereen since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Shereen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shereen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.