Sherrica
Sherrica was last recorded in 1993, when 7 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,613, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1983, the peak
Sherrica peaked in 1983, when 16 girls were given it, #4,656 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 | #11,613 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,114 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,894 | 5.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,541 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,602 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,960 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,666 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,993 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,711 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,656 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 10 | #6,807 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,205 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,316 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,929 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,536 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,444 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,507 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,339 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,775 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,562 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherrica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherrica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherrica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrica, and how old are they?
An estimated 169 Americans named Sherrica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Sherrica (169 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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).
How common is the spelling Sherrica?
Sherrica is a less common spelling of Sherika: SSA has recorded 176 Sherrica and 1,967 Sherika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,266 babies since 1880, Sherrica is the sixth most given (3.3% 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 Sherrica
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 Sherrica and names like it
- Compare Sherrica and SherikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSherrica peaked in 1983.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrica since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Sherrica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherrica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.