Sherley — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherley

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,238 babies named Sherley between 1910 and 2023, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Sherley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 264 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherley performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 202 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sherley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherley in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherley 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 1,238 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.