Sherill — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherill

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,019 babies named Sherill between 1934 and 1994, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherill currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Sherill is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 61 additional births since 1931.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherill performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 319 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sherill shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherill in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherill 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 1,019 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.