Sherre — girls' name
856 babies named Sherre in U.S. Social Security records since 1939, with the highest year being 1956. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Sherre was born in this single decade.
56 babies were named Sherre in 1956 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sherre
The Social Security Administration has registered 856 babies named Sherre between 1939 and 1990, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherre currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 56 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherre performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 295 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sherre shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherre in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sherre in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 856 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sherre at a glance
Last recorded 1990Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sherre popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–1939
- Peak year (1956)
- 56
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1990.
856 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1956 with 56 births in a single year.
Sherre by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 295 births that decade — 34% of Sherre's all-time total
Sherre decade highlights
- Peak decade 295 births
- Runner-up 206 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Sherre's strongest decade
295 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Sherre by state
Where Sherre concentrates geographically — total births since 1939
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 23 | 2.7% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #3 | Texas | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.6% |
23 of 856 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.7% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.2% of nationwide
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
- Alabama 0.6% of nationwide
- Kentucky 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1939–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.