Sherrill — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sherrill

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,932 babies named Sherrill between 1915 and 1997, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sherrill currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 284 babies received it in a single year. Sherrill is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,915 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sherrill performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 2,312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Sherrill shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 727 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sherrill in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sherrill 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 6,932 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.