Sherrell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherrell

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,782 babies named Sherrell between 1934 and 2017, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherrell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 86 babies received it in a single year. Sherrell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 439 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherrell performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 660 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Sherrell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 131 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherrell in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherrell 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 2,782 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.