Sherril
Sherril was last recorded in 1986, when 6 babies were given it; 1,775 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Sherril and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherril by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherril?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,698, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1953, the peak
Sherril peaked in 1953, when 82 babies were given it (77 girls, #1,109 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #10,698 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,144 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,926 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,698 | 6.0 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,990 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,491 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,466 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,692 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,932 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,957 | 12.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 36 | #1,975 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,733 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,238 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,661 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,751 | 22.8 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,646 | 24.4 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,492 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 55 | #1,498 | 27.2 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,461 | 27.2 |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,280 | 34.3 |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,269 | 33.7 |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,310 | 31.9 |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,206 | 35.8 |
| 1954 | 68 | #1,217 | 35.0 |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,109 | 40.9 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,520 | 22.1 |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,234 | 31.7 |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,271 | 30.9 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,171 | 35.7 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,111 | 38.3 |
| 1947 | 71 | #1,057 | 40.1 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,303 | 28.6 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,172 | 35.2 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,398 | 25.6 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,270 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,469 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,872 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,951 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,680 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,501 | 23.6 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,622 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,830 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,290 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,712 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,157 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherril a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,775 Americans recorded as Sherril, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sherril: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherril, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 1,775 Americans ever recorded as Sherril. The median Sherril alive today is 70 years old; half are between 64 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,628 people named Sherril (1,514 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,376 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 154 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 882 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20 |
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 Sherril born?
The states with the most babies named Sherril are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 139 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sherril is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherril is most over-represented in California: since 1925 it was given 1.1 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 Sherril 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 Sherril?
Sherril is a less common spelling of Sheryl: SSA has recorded 1,775 Sherril and 79,026 Sheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,096 babies since 1880, Sherril is the fifth most given (1.8% 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 Sherril
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 Sherril and names like it
- Compare Sherril and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSherril peaked in 1953.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherril since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Sherril.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherril alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.