Sherrika
Sherrika was last recorded in 1993, when 7 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 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 Sherrika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,614, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1987, the peak
Sherrika peaked in 1987, when 16 girls were given it, #5,041 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 | #11,614 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,319 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,799 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,653 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,850 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,041 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,716 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,400 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,176 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,637 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 14 | #5,157 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,737 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,047 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,655 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,022 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,988 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,377 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,092 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherrika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherrika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherrika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrika, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Sherrika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 38 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 165 people named Sherrika (164 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 Sherrika?
Sherrika is a less common spelling of Sherika: SSA has recorded 176 Sherrika and 1,967 Sherika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,261 babies since 1880, Sherrika is the seventh most given (4.1% 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 Sherrika
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 Sherrika and names like it
- Compare Sherrika and SherikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSherrika peaked in 1987.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrika since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Sherrika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherrika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.