Sherly
Sherly was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,793 among girls’ names; 1,062 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Sherly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherly?
#8,793 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherly rose from #10,053 in 2015 to #8,793 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
50 babies in 2008, the peak
Sherly peaked in 2008, when 50 girls were given it, #3,369 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,793 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,363 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,725 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,945 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,969 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,597 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,075 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,487 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,266 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,927 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,053 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,425 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,434 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,230 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,524 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,569 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,358 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,369 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,971 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,557 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,251 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,886 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,096 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,482 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,981 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,464 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,182 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,977 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,670 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,013 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,578 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,603 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,420 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,385 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,064 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,793 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,473 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,104 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,663 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,662 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,467 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,324 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,157 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,312 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,736 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,315 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,537 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,638 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,113 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,170 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,514 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,755 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,918 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,447 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,893 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,186 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,455 | 9.1 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,517 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,314 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,610 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,979 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,493 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,284 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,152 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,656 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,243 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,069 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,188 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,281 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherly, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,062 Americans ever recorded as Sherly. The median Sherly alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 3,181 people named Sherly (3,162 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sherly rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 85 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 126 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 431 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 213 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Sherly born?
The states with the most babies named Sherly are New York, California and New Jersey, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 89 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Sherly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherly is most over-represented in New York: since 1952 it was given 1.7 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 Sherly with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,066 babies since 1880, Sherly is the third most given (26% 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 Sherly
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 Sherly and names like it
- Compare Sherly and SherleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSherly peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherly since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Sherly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sherly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.