Sherryl
Sherryl was last recorded in 1995, when 6 babies were given it; 4,109 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,120 Americans named Sherryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 63 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sherryl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,149, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
209 babies in 1946, the peak
Sherryl peaked in 1946, when 209 babies were given it (204 girls, #555 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #13,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,725 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,224 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,201 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,378 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 10 | #6,699 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,566 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,032 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,195 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,815 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,333 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,735 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,500 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 104 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,283 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,142 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 93 | #1,143 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 126 | #943 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 156 | #845 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 118 | #999 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 133 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 119 | #967 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 152 | #822 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 207 | #694 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 166 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 189 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 164 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 171 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 125 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 184 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 170 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 148 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 161 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 161 | #662 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 204 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 140 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 104 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 71 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 49 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,549 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,774 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherryl has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherryl, and how old are they?
3,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 4,109 Americans ever recorded as Sherryl. The median Sherryl alive today is 70 years old; half are between 63 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 3,694 people named Sherryl (3,678 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 251 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 531 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 77 |
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 Sherryl born?
The states with the most babies named Sherryl are California, Texas and Michigan, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 429 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 204 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 182 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 169 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 145 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 115 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kansas | 93 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 84 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Iowa | 73 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Sherryl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherryl is most over-represented in California: since 1936 it was given 1.3 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 Sherryl 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 Sherryl?
Sherryl is a less common spelling of Sheryl: SSA has recorded 4,109 Sherryl and 79,026 Sheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,096 babies since 1880, Sherryl is the third most given (4.1% 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 Sherryl
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 Sherryl and names like it
- Compare Sherryl and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSherryl peaked in 1946.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherryl since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Sherryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.