Sheridan — #5980 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sheridan

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,580 babies named Sheridan between 1928 and 2024, spanning 97 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sheridan currently holds the #5980 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 305 babies received it in a single year. Sheridan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,760 additional births since 1891.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheridan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,757 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Sheridan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 519 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sheridan in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sheridan 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 5,580 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.