Sherill
Sherill was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 1,080 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 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 Sherill by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherill?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,399, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1954, the peak
Sherill peaked in 1954, when 48 girls were given it, #1,458 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #15,399 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,313 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,895 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,301 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,886 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,859 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,364 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,897 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,794 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,965 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,824 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,702 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,242 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,050 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,918 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,220 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,743 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,417 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,453 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,920 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,665 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,656 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,478 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,523 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,866 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,917 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,666 | 21.7 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,936 | 16.4 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,160 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,864 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,934 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,458 | 24.7 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,164 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,114 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,962 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,827 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,836 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,769 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,455 | 23.7 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,959 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,476 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,958 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,989 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,854 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,567 | 21.5 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,708 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,560 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,209 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,297 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,497 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,808 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,871 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherill a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,080 Americans recorded as Sherill, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sherill: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherill, and how old are they?
An estimated 781 Americans named Sherill and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,119 people named Sherill (1,045 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Sherill?
Sherill is a less common spelling of Sheryl: SSA has recorded 1,080 Sherill and 79,026 Sheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,096 babies since 1880, Sherill is the eighth most given (1.1% 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 Sherill
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 Sherill and names like it
- Compare Sherill and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherill peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherill since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Sherill.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherill alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.