Sherhonda
Sherhonda was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherhonda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherhonda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,561, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1972, the peak
Sherhonda peaked in 1972, when 15 girls were given it, #4,053 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #11,561 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,093 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,182 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,061 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,918 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,313 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,851 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,830 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,144 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,375 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 14 | #4,413 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,241 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,053 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,247 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,744 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,501 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherhonda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherhonda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherhonda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherhonda, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Sherhonda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 45 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 144 people named Sherhonda (144 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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).
How common is the spelling Sherhonda?
Sherhonda is a less common spelling of Sheronda: SSA has recorded 145 Sherhonda and 1,300 Sheronda since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,713 babies since 1880, Sherhonda is the third most given (8.5% 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 Sherhonda
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 Sherhonda and names like it
- Compare Sherhonda and SherondaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSherhonda peaked in 1972.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Sherhonda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sherhonda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.