Shermon
Shermon was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shermon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shermon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,067, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1947, the peak
Shermon peaked in 1947, when 14 boys were given it, #2,152 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #14,067 | 2.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,661 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,206 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,108 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,931 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,135 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,141 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,732 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,398 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,889 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 7 | #4,376 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,831 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,929 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,986 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,002 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,393 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,419 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,745 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,824 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,746 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,135 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,614 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,152 | 7.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,713 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,838 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,384 | 7.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,448 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,095 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,436 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,164 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,458 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,823 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,508 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,929 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,304 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,985 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,898 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,654 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,116 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,118 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,724 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,813 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,591 | 10.9 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,467 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,456 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,343 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,664 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,429 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,161 | 15.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shermon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shermon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shermon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shermon, and how old are they?
An estimated 142 Americans named Shermon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 46 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 170 people named Shermon (8 women and girls, 162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 39,763 babies since 1880, Shermon is the second most given (<1% 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 Shermon
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 Shermon and names like it
- Compare Shermon and ShermanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sShermon peaked in 1947.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Shermon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Shermon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.