Sherlene
Sherlene was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 1,071 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherlene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherlene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,618, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1958, the peak
Sherlene peaked in 1958, when 40 girls were given it, #1,726 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,618 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,301 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,157 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,611 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,576 | 4.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,181 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,212 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,805 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,888 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,006 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #11,190 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,452 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,165 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,826 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,978 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,558 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,150 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,919 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,691 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,994 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,140 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,266 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,921 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,666 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,657 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,603 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,349 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,738 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,051 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,386 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,726 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,980 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,865 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,099 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,115 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,753 | 17.5 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,674 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,576 | 20.5 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,828 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,558 | 21.0 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,895 | 15.3 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,542 | 21.4 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,960 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,327 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,016 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,336 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,796 | 17.0 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,796 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,517 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,725 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,799 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,574 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,684 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,707 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,165 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,773 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,798 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,995 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherlene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherlene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherlene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherlene, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Sherlene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 59 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 852 people named Sherlene (850 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 857 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,535 babies since 1880, Sherlene is the most given (70% 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 Sherlene
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 Sherlene and names like it
- Compare Sherlene and SherlineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherlene peaked in 1958.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherlene since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Sherlene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherlene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.