Sherrilyn
Sherrilyn was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 691 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,809, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1962, the peak
Sherrilyn peaked in 1962, when 37 girls were given it, #1,912 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,809 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,563 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,699 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,200 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,187 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,766 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,027 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,445 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,989 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,378 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | #5,704 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,143 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,690 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,070 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,945 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,595 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,445 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,377 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,128 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,242 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,402 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,009 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,912 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,292 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,713 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,852 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,325 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,551 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,444 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,459 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,366 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,419 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,781 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,964 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,115 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,205 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,118 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,749 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,764 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,138 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,276 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,678 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,574 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,214 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,816 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,866 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherrilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherrilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sherrilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 547 Americans named Sherrilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 58 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 629 people named Sherrilyn (627 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 591 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above 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 Sherrilyn?
Sherrilyn is a less common spelling of Sherilyn: SSA has recorded 691 Sherrilyn and 3,930 Sherilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,940 babies since 1880, Sherrilyn is the third most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 72 babies recorded by SSA was a Sherrilyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sherrilyn
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 Sherrilyn and names like it
- Compare Sherrilyn and SherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSherrilyn peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sherrilyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherrilyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.