Sherrie
Sherrie was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,907 among girls’ names; 35,159 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,300 Americans named Sherrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 56 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrie?
#16,907 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherrie fell from #10,753 in 2015 to #16,907 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.1 per million.
1,534 babies in 1962, the peak
Sherrie peaked in 1962, when 1,534 girls were given it, #215 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,907 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,274 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,086 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,274 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,157 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,622 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,763 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,012 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,753 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,226 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,833 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,075 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,637 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,709 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,302 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,687 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,936 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,503 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,280 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,181 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,157 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,062 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,344 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,764 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,843 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,483 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,430 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,489 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,761 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,310 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,904 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,434 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 123 | #1,221 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 176 | #934 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 175 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 201 | #814 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 267 | #654 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 212 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 278 | #645 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 239 | #707 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 282 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 356 | #533 | 0.22 |
| 1978 | 326 | #546 | 0.21 |
| 1977 | 369 | #504 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 431 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 499 | #406 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 498 | #405 | 0.34 |
| 1973 | 645 | #339 | 0.44 |
| 1972 | 715 | #328 | 0.47 |
| 1971 | 813 | #326 | 0.49 |
| 1970 | 926 | #306 | 0.53 |
| 1969 | 1,007 | #282 | 0.60 |
| 1968 | 1,012 | #268 | 0.62 |
| 1967 | 1,114 | #251 | 0.67 |
| 1966 | 1,133 | #253 | 0.67 |
| 1965 | 1,207 | #248 | 0.68 |
| 1964 | 1,329 | #240 | 0.70 |
| 1963 | 1,494 | #223 | 0.78 |
| 1962 | 1,534 | #215 | 0.78 |
| 1961 | 1,370 | #234 | 0.68 |
| 1960 | 1,330 | #241 | 0.66 |
| 1959 | 1,368 | #230 | 0.68 |
| 1958 | 1,338 | #228 | 0.67 |
| 1957 | 1,452 | #219 | 0.71 |
| 1956 | 1,337 | #227 | 0.67 |
| 1955 | 1,155 | #238 | 0.59 |
| 1954 | 1,072 | #251 | 0.55 |
| 1953 | 788 | #294 | 0.42 |
| 1952 | 799 | #288 | 0.43 |
| 1951 | 542 | #340 | 0.30 |
| 1950 | 531 | #339 | 0.31 |
| 1949 | 500 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1948 | 510 | #344 | 0.30 |
| 1947 | 569 | #333 | 0.32 |
| 1946 | 468 | #351 | 0.30 |
| 1945 | 320 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 304 | #416 | 0.23 |
| 1943 | 254 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 196 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1941 | 171 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 97 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 79 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 84 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 66 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 66 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,838 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherrie has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrie, and how old are they?
29,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 35,159 Americans ever recorded as Sherrie. The median Sherrie alive today is 63 years old; half are between 56 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 28,257 people named Sherrie (28,242 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,021 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 815 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15,600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 273 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 78 |
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 Sherrie born?
The states with the most babies named Sherrie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,413 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 2,356 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,876 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,641 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 1,459 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 1,307 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 1,267 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 1,239 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,220 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 1,134 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Sherrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherrie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1921 it was given 4.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Sherrie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sherrie?
Sherrie is a less common spelling of Sherry: SSA has recorded 35,159 Sherrie and 230,913 Sherry since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 431,509 babies since 1880, Sherrie is the fourth most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 46 babies (11%), again the fourth most given.
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 Sherrie
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 Sherrie and names like it
- Compare Sherrie and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSherrie peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sherrie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherrie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.