Sherle
Sherle was last recorded in 1965, when 5 babies were given it; 69 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,357, in 1965; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1921, the peak
Sherle peaked in 1921, when 7 girls were given it, #4,389 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #7,357 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,752 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,621 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,071 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,754 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,654 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,395 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,280 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,215 | 3.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,887 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 7 | #4,389 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,659 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherle, and how old are they?
An estimated 41 Americans named Sherle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 124 people named Sherle (112 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sherle 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,322 babies since 1880, Sherle is the eighth most given (1.3% 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.
More about Sherle and names like it
- Compare Sherle and SherleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSherle peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Sherle.
- Names starting with SMost given first.