Sherell
Sherell was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 1,480 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Sherell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,672, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1987, the peak
Sherell peaked in 1987, when 76 girls were given it, #1,626 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,672 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,295 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,137 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,387 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,592 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,404 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,263 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,059 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,437 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,856 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 16 | #6,120 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,411 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,214 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,943 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,661 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,396 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,283 | 30.4 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,945 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,601 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,237 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 76 | #1,626 | 43.7 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,616 | 43.1 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,971 | 32.5 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,219 | 26.7 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,231 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,280 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,649 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,851 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,239 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,934 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,248 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,378 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,447 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,489 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,446 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,507 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,860 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,198 | 21.2 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,502 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,855 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,427 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,567 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,516 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,664 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,533 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,975 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,347 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,659 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,577 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,149 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,460 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,302 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,546 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,466 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,540 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,475 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,757 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,213 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,601 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,924 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,212 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,151 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherell has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherell, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,480 Americans ever recorded as Sherell. The median Sherell alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,252 people named Sherell (1,194 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 166 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 467 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 647 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 96 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,096 babies since 1880, Sherell is the seventh most given (1.5% 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 Sherell
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 Sherell and names like it
- Compare Sherell and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSherell peaked in 1987.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherell since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Sherell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.