Sherre
Sherre was last recorded in 1990, when 8 babies were given it; 856 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherre?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,041, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1956, the peak
Sherre peaked in 1956, when 56 girls were given it, #1,411 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 8 | #10,041 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,129 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,639 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,393 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,877 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,710 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,199 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,850 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,893 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,201 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 10 | #6,623 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,652 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,892 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,540 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,101 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,834 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,130 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,410 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,920 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,553 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,744 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,142 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,187 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,918 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,814 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,736 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,604 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,403 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,526 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,189 | 14.3 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,100 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,898 | 16.9 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,584 | 23.0 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,411 | 27.9 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,634 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,619 | 20.6 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,580 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,025 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,962 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,679 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,832 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,685 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,188 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,473 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,354 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,275 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,216 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,073 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,213 | 7.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,185 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherre has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherre, and how old are they?
An estimated 707 Americans named Sherre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 53 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 753 people named Sherre (749 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 752 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 431,468 babies since 1880, Sherre is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherre (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 Sherre
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 Sherre and names like it
- Compare Sherre and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherre peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherre since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Sherre.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherre alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.