Sherra
Sherra was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 897 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,221, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1970, the peak
Sherra peaked in 1970, when 28 girls were given it, #2,633 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,221 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,236 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,429 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,115 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,797 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,652 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,601 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,899 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,438 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,257 | 11.0 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 15 | #4,931 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,786 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,691 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,303 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,286 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,426 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,898 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,895 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,647 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,240 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,703 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,768 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,515 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,771 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,633 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,087 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,141 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,186 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,922 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,921 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,988 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,309 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,568 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,525 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,635 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,744 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,564 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,657 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,472 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,356 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,437 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,684 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,493 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,262 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,519 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,399 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,405 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,618 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,084 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,439 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,345 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,891 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,072 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,989 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,943 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,902 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,749 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherra, and how old are they?
An estimated 754 Americans named Sherra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 799 people named Sherra (797 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 797 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 431,509 babies since 1880, Sherra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherra (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 Sherra
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 Sherra and names like it
- Compare Sherra and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSherra peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherra since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Sherra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sherra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.