Sherilyn
Sherilyn was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 3,930 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Sherilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 44 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,272, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
120 babies in 1946, the peak
Sherilyn peaked in 1946, when 120 girls were given it, #747 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,272 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,263 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,400 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,999 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,286 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,322 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,573 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,133 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,752 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,452 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,378 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,289 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,176 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,150 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,348 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,697 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,049 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,681 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,694 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,338 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,156 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,213 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,266 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,104 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,642 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,463 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,219 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,436 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,006 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,427 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,662 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,079 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,776 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,354 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,518 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,787 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,725 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,259 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,803 | 36.6 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,141 | 27.9 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,349 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,007 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,081 | 30.0 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,479 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,465 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,383 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,087 | 30.0 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,129 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,016 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,729 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,827 | 32.2 |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,335 | 50.0 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,593 | 36.1 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,498 | 38.3 |
| 1969 | 80 | #1,256 | 47.4 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,290 | 45.1 |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,117 | 53.9 |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,169 | 49.6 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,286 | 40.2 |
| 1964 | 96 | #1,124 | 50.7 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,199 | 43.6 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,137 | 47.3 |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,160 | 45.1 |
| 1960 | 99 | #1,084 | 49.0 |
| 1959 | 102 | #1,056 | 50.4 |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,055 | 49.2 |
| 1957 | 102 | #1,039 | 49.9 |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,218 | 36.9 |
| 1955 | 90 | #1,067 | 46.0 |
| 1954 | 99 | #982 | 51.0 |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,119 | 40.4 |
| 1952 | 78 | #1,071 | 42.1 |
| 1951 | 92 | #973 | 51.1 |
| 1950 | 105 | #866 | 61.3 |
| 1949 | 93 | #923 | 54.4 |
| 1948 | 80 | #973 | 47.1 |
| 1947 | 120 | #793 | 67.7 |
| 1946 | 120 | #747 | 76.4 |
| 1945 | 50 | #1,119 | 38.3 |
| 1944 | 69 | #935 | 52.0 |
| 1943 | 46 | #1,202 | 33.0 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,553 | 21.5 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,517 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,022 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,195 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #2,012 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,714 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,107 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,156 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherilyn, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 3,930 Americans ever recorded as Sherilyn. The median Sherilyn alive today is 60 years old; half are between 44 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 3,621 people named Sherilyn (3,617 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 135 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,380 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 873 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 597 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 209 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 84 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sherilyn born?
The states with the most babies named Sherilyn are California, Texas and Illinois, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 479 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 342 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 83 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Hawaii | 50 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Utah | 37 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Sherilyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherilyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1933 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sherilyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,740 babies since 1880, Sherilyn is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherilyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sherilyn
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 Sherilyn and names like it
- Compare Sherilyn and SherlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSherilyn peaked in 1946.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Sherilyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherilyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.