Sherita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sherita

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,022 babies named Sherita between 1949 and 2022, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 237 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,656 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Sherita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 273 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherita in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherita 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 4,022 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.