Sherril — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherril

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,622 babies named Sherril between 1933 and 1986, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherril currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1986. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 77 babies received it in a single year. Sherril is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 153 additional births since 1925.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherril performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 623 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sherril shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 139 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherril in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherril 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 1,622 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.