Sherrod
Sherrod was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,975 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Sherrod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 27 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherrod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherrod?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,223, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1991, the peak
Sherrod peaked in 1991, when 71 boys were given it, #1,344 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,223 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,027 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,094 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,417 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,115 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,789 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,044 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,752 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,944 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,028 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 23 | #4,289 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,252 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,479 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,496 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,717 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,865 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,980 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,341 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,790 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,436 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,098 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,159 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,780 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,976 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,262 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,280 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,668 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,425 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,944 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,113 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,761 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,973 | 20.5 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,344 | 35.1 |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,346 | 33.6 |
| 1989 | 61 | #1,404 | 30.5 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,300 | 32.9 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,333 | 30.0 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,580 | 22.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,640 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,685 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 47 | #1,372 | 26.2 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,532 | 22.6 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,597 | 21.2 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,407 | 25.8 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,666 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,431 | 26.2 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,639 | 20.7 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,867 | 17.2 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,748 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,928 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,430 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,677 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,354 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,735 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,716 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,888 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,846 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,204 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,751 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,558 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,284 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,103 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,876 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,300 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,565 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,792 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,218 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,774 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,576 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,688 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,493 | 5.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,279 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,643 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,837 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,952 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,388 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,197 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,874 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,914 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,131 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,985 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,084 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,250 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,467 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,648 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,740 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,778 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,815 | 6.2 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,959 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,880 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,490 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,461 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherrod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherrod has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherrod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherrod, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,975 Americans ever recorded as Sherrod. The median Sherrod alive today is 37 years old; half are between 27 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,429 people named Sherrod (72 women and girls, 1,357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,762 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 106 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 385 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 130 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,085 babies since 1880, Sherrod is the most given (64% 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 Sherrod
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 Sherrod and names like it
- Compare Sherrod and SherodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSherrod peaked in 1991.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherrod since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Sherrod.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sherrod alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.