Sherrel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherrel

The Social Security Administration has registered 768 babies named Sherrel between 1936 and 1994, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherrel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Sherrel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 112 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherrel performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sherrel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherrel in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherrel 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 768 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.