Girls' name · since 1980
Shereeta
Shereeta has 16 recorded births since 1980 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1981 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #49,208 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1980
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shereeta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 16 have been recorded since 1980.
Shereeta has 16 recorded births among girls since 1980, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1980 to 1984.
- #49,208 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 16 born since 1980
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shereeta ranks #49,208 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 16 born since 1980, peaking in the 1980s.
- #49,208 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1980
- 1980s
- peak decade
Shereeta's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shereeta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Shereeta splits its recorded history at 1981: 69% of all births land in the more recent half, 31% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1980 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1981 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Shereeta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–1984
- Peak year (1981)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Shereeta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (16 births, 100% of the file).
1980s was Shereeta's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Shereeta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 16 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shereeta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1980–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shereeta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.