Sheron
Sheron was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 3,768 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Sheron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 51 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheron?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,757, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1946, the peak
Sheron peaked in 1946, when 128 girls were given it, #714 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,933 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #13,893 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,535 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,718 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #14,282 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,757 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,972 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,474 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 12 | #5,950 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,211 | 6 | #10,151 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #16,527 | 9 | #7,009 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,220 | 10 | #6,221 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,167 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,619 | 7 | #7,836 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,654 | 10 | #5,842 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,535 | 8 | #6,879 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,162 | 8 | #6,724 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,962 | 8 | #6,594 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,315 | 9 | #5,862 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,812 | 6 | #7,962 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,644 | 8 | #6,126 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,564 | 6 | #7,110 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,961 | 8 | #5,377 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,700 | 13 | #3,620 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,614 | 8 | #5,071 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,463 | 9 | #4,496 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,661 | 8 | #4,848 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,944 | 9 | #4,532 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,609 | 9 | #4,443 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,988 | 9 | #4,447 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,517 | 12 | #3,534 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,731 | 20 | #2,366 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,299 | 17 | #2,646 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,425 | 20 | #2,317 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,606 | 21 | #2,194 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,059 | 7 | #4,568 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,089 | 19 | #2,201 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,883 | 14 | #2,638 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,542 | 8 | #3,915 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,525 | 5 | #5,336 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,751 | 6 | #4,338 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,623 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,394 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,528 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,287 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,459 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,386 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,299 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,190 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,325 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,270 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 87 | #1,138 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 100 | #1,047 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 105 | #1,000 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 113 | #927 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 81 | #1,099 | 6 | #3,756 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,095 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 69 | #1,145 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 101 | #912 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 90 | #945 | 5 | #4,125 |
| 1949 | 102 | #870 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 115 | #806 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 128 | #762 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 128 | #714 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 107 | #720 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 102 | #758 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 96 | #794 | 5 | #3,975 |
| 1942 | 84 | #834 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 48 | #1,064 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,020 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,127 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,371 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,298 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,015 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,836 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,905 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sheron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,768 Americans recorded as Sheron, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sheron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheron, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 3,768 Americans ever recorded as Sheron. The median Sheron alive today is 64 years old; half are between 51 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 3,658 people named Sheron (3,357 women and girls, 301 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 294 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,320 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 829 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 101 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Sheron born?
The states with the most babies named Sheron are Texas, South Carolina and California, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 128 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 125 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 98 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 96 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 82 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 72 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 68 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sheron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sheron is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1934 it was given 2.0 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 Sheron 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 11,299 babies since 1880, Sheron is the most given (33% 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 Sheron
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 Sheron and names like it
- Compare Sheron and SherronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSheron peaked in 1946.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheron since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Sheron.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sheron alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.