Sherlin
Sherlin was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,906 among girls’ names; 774 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherlin?
#16,906 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherlin fell from #6,426 in 2015 to #16,906 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.1 per million.
121 babies in 2006, the peak
Sherlin peaked in 2006, when 121 girls were given it, #1,733 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,906 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,273 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,916 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,050 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,199 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,273 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,292 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,391 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,075 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,134 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,426 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,587 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,295 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,090 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,664 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,722 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,350 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,112 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,365 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,733 | 63.6 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,853 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,305 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,987 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,346 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,267 | 3.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,108 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherlin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherlin, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Sherlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 16 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 797 people named Sherlin (767 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 728 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
Where are babies named Sherlin born?
The states with the most babies named Sherlin are California, Texas and Georgia, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 98 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 37 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 8 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Sherlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherlin is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.2 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 Sherlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sherlin?
Sherlin is a less common spelling of Sherlyn: SSA has recorded 774 Sherlin and 8,962 Sherlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,985 babies since 1880, Sherlin is the third most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 77 babies (6.5%), the second most given that year.
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 Sherlin
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 Sherlin and names like it
- Compare Sherlin and SherlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSherlin peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherlin since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Sherlin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sherlin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.