Sherrell
Sherrell was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 3,221 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Sherrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 39 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,894, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1989, the peak
Sherrell peaked in 1989, when 86 girls were given it, #1,623 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #13,894 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,878 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,552 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,422 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,187 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,502 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,801 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,392 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,621 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,123 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #11,889 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,063 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,617 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,717 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,794 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,715 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,410 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,290 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,815 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,722 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,151 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,885 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,623 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,962 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,643 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,535 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,676 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,500 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,017 | 5 | #7,174 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,818 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,863 | 6 | #6,136 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,429 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,081 | 5 | #6,931 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,184 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,504 | 6 | #5,734 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,962 | 5 | #6,360 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,870 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,683 | 7 | #4,569 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,683 | 7 | #4,432 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,538 | 5 | #5,631 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,751 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,699 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,723 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,970 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,071 | 7 | #3,502 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,185 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,653 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,660 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,708 | 5 | #4,544 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,880 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,462 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,975 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,816 | 7 | #3,564 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,899 | 8 | #3,239 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,744 | 8 | #3,217 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,829 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,380 | 7 | #3,467 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,668 | 9 | #2,917 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,696 | 9 | #2,878 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,854 | 5 | #4,190 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,577 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,547 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,504 | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,546 | 17 | #1,874 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,483 | 20 | #1,727 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,763 | 18 | #1,747 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,935 | 8 | #2,722 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,333 | 14 | #1,970 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,941 | 8 | #2,936 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,855 | 12 | #2,247 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,258 | 17 | #1,748 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,284 | 16 | #1,794 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,112 | 14 | #1,952 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,936 | 12 | #2,165 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,715 | 16 | #1,816 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,072 | 17 | #1,718 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,131 | 15 | #1,910 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,124 | 9 | #2,721 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,967 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 7 | #3,328 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 13 | #2,200 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 16 | #1,949 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,215 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,732 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,125 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,857 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,766 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 7 | #3,460 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #3,035 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #3,215 |
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 Sherrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,221 Americans recorded as Sherrell, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sherrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrell, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 3,221 Americans ever recorded as Sherrell. The median Sherrell alive today is 50 years old; half are between 39 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 2,393 people named Sherrell (2,141 women and girls, 252 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,749 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 131 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 659 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 722 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 918 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sherrell born?
The states with the most babies named Sherrell are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 131 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 78 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 45 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sherrell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,950 babies since 1880, Sherrell is the third most given (14% 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 Sherrell
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 Sherrell and names like it
- Compare Sherrell and SherrillBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSherrell peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Sherrell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherrell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.