Sheril
Sheril was last recorded in 1994, when 7 babies were given it; 709 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheril by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheril?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,595, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1964, the peak
Sheril peaked in 1964, when 47 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7 | #11,595 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,696 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,183 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,858 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,533 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,773 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,988 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,264 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,462 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,444 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 16 | #3,594 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,039 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,056 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,568 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,286 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,702 | 24.8 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,811 | 21.8 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,522 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,912 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,188 | 14.3 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,849 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,725 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,108 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,656 | 20.9 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,400 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,226 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,683 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,492 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,322 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,325 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,371 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,813 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,046 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,631 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,479 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,924 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,274 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,941 | 4.4 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,701 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheril a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheril has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sheril: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheril, and how old are they?
An estimated 577 Americans named Sheril and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 60 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 837 people named Sheril (803 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 616 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sheril rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Sheril?
Sheril is a less common spelling of Sheryl: SSA has recorded 709 Sheril and 79,026 Sheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 98,584 babies since 1880, Sheril is the eighth most given (<1% 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 Sheril
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 Sheril and names like it
- Compare Sheril and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSheril peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheril since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Sheril.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sheril alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.