Meaning not yet researched.
Sheridan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #780 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #780 in 2001; #5,375 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Sheridan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,375 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #780.
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Sheridan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #780 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 305 (2001).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Sheridan, making it the 5,375th most common girls’ name of the year, up 753 places from #6,128 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 20 girls named Sheridan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #780, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 305. For comparison, it was #4,288 in 2015 and #1,330 in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Sheridan, making it the 9,579th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #492, reached in 1891. The most boys given the name in a single year was 52, in 1990. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,494 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sheridan in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 14 babies. In all, 8,372 US babies have been given the name, 67% of them girls and 33% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,052 babies named Sheridan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 219 US girls were named Sheridan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sherilyn (3,930 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sheridyn, Sheriden and Sheradyn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dan, Danny and Sher.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sheridyn (87), Sheriden (64), Sheradyn (18), Sherridan (17), Sheridon (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,375 | 8 | #9,579 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,128 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,234 | 6 | #12,031 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,432 | 15 | #6,104 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,973 | 6 | #11,919 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,885 | 5 | #13,738 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,204 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,800 | 5 | #13,938 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,148 | 7 | #10,567 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,989 | 6 | #11,894 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,993 | 8 | #9,521 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,300 | 9 | #8,658 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,800 | 6 | #11,971 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,437 | 7 | #10,852 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,803 | 11 | #7,506 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,650 | 7 | #10,491 |
| 2005 | 153 | #1,404 | 14 | #5,833 |
| 2004 | 192 | #1,174 | 20 | #4,389 |
| 2003 | 207 | #1,074 | 21 | #4,086 |
| 2002 | 225 | #983 | 17 | #4,672 |
| 2001 | 305 | #780 | 23 | #3,707 |
| 2000 | 264 | #842 | 23 | #3,624 |
| 1999 | 199 | #1,027 | 36 | #2,503 |
| 1998 | 188 | #1,048 | 37 | #2,386 |
| 1997 | 218 | #919 | 41 | #2,158 |
| 1996 | 202 | #956 | 41 | #2,107 |
| 1995 | 171 | #1,054 | 50 | #1,777 |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,058 | 35 | #2,299 |
| 1993 | 150 | #1,173 | 43 | #1,928 |
| 1992 | 133 | #1,287 | 46 | #1,818 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,500 | 46 | #1,766 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,700 | 52 | #1,611 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,850 | 35 | #2,063 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,925 | 31 | #2,082 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,482 | 25 | #2,324 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,463 | 21 | #2,591 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,645 | 24 | #2,284 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,054 | 17 | #2,801 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,925 | 29 | #1,898 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,007 | 16 | #2,955 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,505 | 24 | #2,195 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,695 | 32 | #1,799 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,983 | 32 | #1,780 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,615 | 21 | #2,264 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,251 | 20 | #2,342 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,933 | 26 | #1,922 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,869 | 28 | #1,776 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,992 | 29 | #1,689 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,999 | 37 | #1,398 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,508 | 29 | #1,640 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,029 | 42 | #1,305 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,012 | 29 | #1,609 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,995 | 28 | #1,561 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,286 | 24 | #1,640 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,316 | 14 | #2,234 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,733 | 16 | #2,031 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,196 | 17 | #1,980 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,220 | 16 | #2,103 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,353 | 20 | #1,833 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,522 | 18 | #1,950 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,143 | 19 | #1,937 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,810 | 20 | #1,852 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,386 | 22 | #1,754 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,205 | 17 | #2,010 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,160 | 13 | #2,362 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,521 | 13 | #2,352 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,330 | 12 | #2,417 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,018 | 32 | #1,357 |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,009 | 19 | #1,822 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,011 | 16 | #1,998 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,392 | 18 | #1,828 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,330 | 25 | #1,494 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,352 | 39 | #1,143 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,344 | 34 | #1,251 |
| 1947 | 71 | #1,057 | 30 | #1,358 |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,085 | 46 | #1,015 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,444 | 26 | #1,324 |
| 1944 | 52 | #1,088 | 32 | #1,189 |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,060 | 40 | #1,085 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,203 | 44 | #1,022 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,414 | 52 | #885 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,632 | 42 | #1,004 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,679 | 28 | #1,269 |
| 1938 | 17 | #2,011 | 44 | #961 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,434 | 27 | #1,310 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,013 | 33 | #1,166 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,809 | 29 | #1,272 |
| 1934 | — | — | 27 | #1,318 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,636 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,303 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,584 |
| 1930 | — | — | 26 | #1,461 |
| 1929 | — | — | 25 | #1,477 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,647 | 36 | #1,208 |
| 1927 | — | — | 28 | #1,431 |
| 1926 | — | — | 36 | #1,215 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,358 |
| 1924 | — | — | 29 | #1,405 |
| 1923 | — | — | 35 | #1,233 |
| 1922 | — | — | 26 | #1,501 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,293 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,738 |
| 1919 | — | — | 24 | #1,527 |
| 1918 | — | — | 24 | #1,528 |
| 1917 | — | — | 21 | #1,635 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,688 |
| 1915 | — | — | 20 | #1,593 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,297 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,570 |
| 1912 | — | — | 14 | #1,341 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,368 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,807 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,564 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,394 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,114 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,121 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #984 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,086 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #863 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,162 |
| 1891 | — | — | 14 | #492 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).