Shermaine — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shermaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 508 babies named Shermaine between 1947 and 2005, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shermaine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Shermaine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 173 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shermaine performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shermaine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shermaine 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 508 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.