Sherrel
Sherrel was last recorded in 1994, when 6 babies were given it; 880 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,184, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1954, the peak
Sherrel peaked in 1954, when 33 girls were given it, #1,827 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #13,184 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,184 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,651 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,900 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,798 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,540 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,291 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,724 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,400 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,209 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 10 | #6,806 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,894 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,046 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,366 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,267 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,114 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,293 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,248 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,411 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,465 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,448 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,146 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,085 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,671 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,380 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,382 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,360 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,941 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,017 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,974 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,488 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,410 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,249 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,550 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,187 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,935 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,827 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,966 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,394 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,306 | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,045 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,913 | 5 | #4,136 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,998 | 6 | #3,615 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,814 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,674 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,974 | 5 | #3,714 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,346 | 8 | #2,836 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,834 | 7 | #3,196 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,301 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,522 | 6 | #3,449 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,177 | 5 | #3,873 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,895 | 7 | #3,074 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,799 | 5 | #3,962 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,397 | 5 | #3,938 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,071 | 5 | #3,984 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 12 | #2,231 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,586 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,899 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,647 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,814 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,882 |
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 Sherrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 880 Americans recorded as Sherrel, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sherrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 627 Americans named Sherrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 54 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 712 people named Sherrel (633 women and girls, 79 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 100,896 babies since 1880, Sherrel is the eighth most given (<1% 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 Sherrel
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 Sherrel and names like it
- Compare Sherrel and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherrel peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrel since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Sherrel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherrel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.