Sheryll
Sheryll was last recorded in 1987, when 6 babies were given it; 1,558 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Sheryll and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheryll by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheryll?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,083, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
101 babies in 1955, the peak
Sheryll peaked in 1955, when 101 girls were given it, #997 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #11,083 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,700 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,904 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,059 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,205 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,700 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,215 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,163 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,641 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,380 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 12 | #4,972 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,566 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,862 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,071 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,450 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,764 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,958 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,014 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,509 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,667 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,102 | 17.4 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,918 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,591 | 25.9 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,493 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,592 | 24.7 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,511 | 25.7 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,362 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,164 | 40.6 |
| 1956 | 93 | #1,061 | 46.3 |
| 1955 | 101 | #997 | 51.7 |
| 1954 | 71 | #1,192 | 36.6 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,405 | 26.0 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,208 | 34.0 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,356 | 26.7 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,317 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 64 | #1,141 | 37.4 |
| 1948 | 55 | #1,233 | 32.4 |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,148 | 35.0 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,270 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,616 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,220 | 32.4 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,392 | 25.8 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,529 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,518 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,285 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,723 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,801 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,398 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,663 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheryll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheryll has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheryll: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheryll, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 1,558 Americans ever recorded as Sheryll. The median Sheryll alive today is 70 years old; half are between 64 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 1,756 people named Sheryll (1,750 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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 | 95 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 872 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 188 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
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 Sheryll born?
The states with the most babies named Sheryll are California, Michigan and Massachusetts, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 29 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Sheryll 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 Sheryll?
Sheryll is a less common spelling of Sheryl: SSA has recorded 1,558 Sheryll and 79,026 Sheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,096 babies since 1880, Sheryll is the sixth most given (1.5% 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 Sheryll
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 Sheryll and names like it
- Compare Sheryll and SherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sSheryll peaked in 1955.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheryll since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Sheryll.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sheryll alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.