Sherolyn
Sherolyn was last recorded in 1974, when 5 babies were given it; 192 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherolyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,982, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1954, the peak
Sherolyn peaked in 1954, when 13 girls were given it, #3,304 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,982 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,729 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,947 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,476 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,769 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,238 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,887 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,127 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,004 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,860 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 9 | #4,424 | 4.5 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,304 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,653 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,428 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,461 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,678 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,150 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,589 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,668 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,632 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,482 | 4.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,278 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,988 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,284 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherolyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherolyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 142 Americans named Sherolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 65 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Sherolyn (234 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,722 babies since 1880, Sherolyn is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherolyn (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sherolyn
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 Sherolyn and names like it
- Compare Sherolyn and SherlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherolyn peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Sherolyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherolyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.