Sherese — girls' name
940 babies named Sherese in U.S. Social Security records since 1958, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Sherese was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Sherese in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sherese
The Social Security Administration has registered 940 babies named Sherese between 1958 and 2004, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherese currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 51 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherese performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sherese shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherese in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sherese in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 940 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sherese at a glance
Last recorded 2004Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sherese popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–1958
- Peak year (1980)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2004.
940 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 51 births in a single year.
Sherese by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 317 births that decade — 34% of Sherese's all-time total
Sherese decade highlights
- Peak decade 317 births
- Runner-up 313 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Sherese's strongest decade
317 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Sherese by state
Where Sherese concentrates geographically — total births since 1958
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 80 | 8.5% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 65 | 6.9% |
| #3 | California | | 12 | 1.3% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #6 | District of Columbia | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #7 | Florida | | 5 | 0.5% |
80 of 940 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 8.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 6.9% of nationwide
- California 1.3% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 8.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1958–2004 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.