Sherlynn
Sherlynn was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 274 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherlynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherlynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,984, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2006, the peak
Sherlynn peaked in 2006, when 13 girls were given it, #9,199 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,984 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,629 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,150 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,151 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,568 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,186 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,299 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,199 | 6.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,472 | 4.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,229 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #13,564 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,652 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,191 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,299 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,105 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,479 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,668 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,716 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,412 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,659 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,481 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,223 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,494 | 5.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,487 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,859 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,126 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,753 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,926 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,078 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,324 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,993 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,947 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,566 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,204 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,599 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,155 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherlynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherlynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherlynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherlynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 237 Americans named Sherlynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 19 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Sherlynn (296 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Sherlynn?
Sherlynn is a less common spelling of Sherlyn: SSA has recorded 274 Sherlynn and 8,962 Sherlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,241 babies since 1880, Sherlynn is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherlynn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Sherlynn and names like it
- Compare Sherlynn and SherlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSherlynn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherlynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Sherlynn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherlynn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.