Sherlyn
Sherlyn was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,480 among girls’ names; 8,962 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,590 Americans named Sherlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sherlyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sherlyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Sheryl / Sheri + Lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sherlyn?
#2,480 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherlyn fell from #1,143 in 2015 to #2,480 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.04 per 1,000.
895 babies in 2006, the peak
Sherlyn peaked in 2006, when 895 babies were given it (887 girls, #367 among girls’ names). The 72 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,480 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,965 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,705 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 145 | #1,502 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,637 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,387 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 159 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 216 | #1,151 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 227 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 222 | #1,143 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 305 | #892 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 423 | #675 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 445 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 302 | #867 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 472 | #624 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 556 | #547 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 465 | #659 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 476 | #628 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 887 | #367 | 0.47 |
| 2005 | 377 | #725 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 487 | #580 | 0.27 |
| 2003 | 261 | #913 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,094 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,687 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,123 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,464 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,689 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,448 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,052 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,791 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,441 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,234 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,474 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,597 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,898 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,927 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,466 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,930 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,480 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,837 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,705 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,168 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,162 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,539 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,670 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,903 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,347 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,345 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,879 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,035 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,979 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,558 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,451 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 55 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 60 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,643 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,773 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherlyn has been given almost only to girls: 8 boys in 88 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherlyn, and how old are they?
8,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,962 Americans ever recorded as Sherlyn. The median Sherlyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 5,919 people named Sherlyn (5,894 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,012 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 53 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 711 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 364 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,410 |
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 Sherlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Sherlyn are Texas, Georgia and California, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,892 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,334 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #3,056 | 1.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,382 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,329 | 1.3× |
Where Sherlyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherlyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1936 it was given 1.6 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 Sherlyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,722 babies since 1880, Sherlyn is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 77 babies (94%), again the most given.
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 Sherlyn
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 Sherlyn and names like it
- Compare Sherlyn and SherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSherlyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherlyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Sherlyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Sherlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sherlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.