Meaning not yet researched.
Sherman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 1894; #5,169 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sherman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,169 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #154.
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Sherman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #154 in 1894 · most boys in one year: 635 (1950).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Sherman, making it the 5,169th most common boys’ name of the year, down 312 places from #4,857 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 21 boys named Sherman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #154, reached in 1894. The most boys given the name in a single year was 635, in 1950. For comparison, it was #2,853 in 2015 and #260 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sherman in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 54 babies with the name. In all, 39,393 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,851 babies named Sherman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 324 US boys were named Sherman; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shermaine, Shermon and Shermane are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shermaine (681), Shermon (370), Shermane (32), Shermain (10).
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.
No nicknames listed for Sherman in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,169 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,857 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,218 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,602 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,484 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,334 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,247 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,225 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,667 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,655 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,853 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,976 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,885 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,672 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,947 |
| 2010 | — | — | 43 | #2,818 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,550 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,233 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,363 |
| 2006 | — | — | 72 | #1,889 |
| 2005 | — | — | 70 | #1,852 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,877 |
| 2003 | — | — | 75 | #1,666 |
| 2002 | — | — | 70 | #1,692 |
| 2001 | — | — | 89 | #1,412 |
| 2000 | — | — | 108 | #1,239 |
| 1999 | — | — | 80 | #1,454 |
| 1998 | — | — | 103 | #1,204 |
| 1997 | — | — | 124 | #1,038 |
| 1996 | — | — | 116 | #1,058 |
| 1995 | — | — | 114 | #1,051 |
| 1994 | — | — | 148 | #896 |
| 1993 | — | — | 144 | #892 |
| 1992 | — | — | 175 | #794 |
| 1991 | — | — | 183 | #757 |
| 1990 | — | — | 164 | #796 |
| 1989 | — | — | 195 | #705 |
| 1988 | — | — | 170 | #724 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,961 | 172 | #694 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,403 | 189 | #651 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,144 | 196 | #629 |
| 1984 | — | — | 216 | #579 |
| 1983 | — | — | 251 | #526 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,058 | 271 | #517 |
| 1981 | — | — | 285 | #499 |
| 1980 | — | — | 303 | #484 |
| 1979 | — | — | 286 | #492 |
| 1978 | — | — | 312 | #453 |
| 1977 | — | — | 301 | #464 |
| 1976 | — | — | 291 | #459 |
| 1975 | — | — | 334 | #431 |
| 1974 | — | — | 326 | #439 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,249 | 291 | #458 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,392 | 369 | #410 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,161 | 383 | #411 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,107 | 387 | #414 |
| 1969 | — | — | 383 | #407 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,891 | 351 | #411 |
| 1967 | — | — | 370 | #396 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,210 | 336 | #413 |
| 1965 | — | — | 407 | #387 |
| 1964 | — | — | 446 | #373 |
| 1963 | — | — | 451 | #376 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,421 | 491 | #357 |
| 1961 | — | — | 498 | #356 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,623 | 563 | #325 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,997 | 511 | #344 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,887 | 599 | #310 |
| 1957 | — | — | 514 | #337 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,778 | 533 | #323 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,016 | 590 | #298 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,929 | 555 | #307 |
| 1953 | — | — | 605 | #286 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,759 | 611 | #279 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,682 | 634 | #269 |
| 1950 | — | — | 635 | #260 |
| 1949 | — | — | 558 | #287 |
| 1948 | — | — | 595 | #274 |
| 1947 | — | — | 577 | #287 |
| 1946 | — | — | 519 | #283 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,159 | 511 | #257 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,156 | 512 | #260 |
| 1943 | — | — | 541 | #261 |
| 1942 | — | — | 552 | #244 |
| 1941 | — | — | 559 | #230 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,944 | 532 | #232 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,867 | 546 | #221 |
| 1938 | — | — | 521 | #230 |
| 1937 | — | — | 543 | #220 |
| 1936 | — | — | 485 | #233 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,388 | 511 | #229 |
| 1934 | — | — | 437 | #258 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,776 | 442 | #248 |
| 1932 | — | — | 432 | #261 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,882 | 443 | #257 |
| 1930 | — | — | 473 | #257 |
| 1929 | — | — | 503 | #245 |
| 1928 | — | — | 511 | #247 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,731 | 524 | #246 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,771 | 473 | #258 |
| 1925 | — | — | 499 | #255 |
| 1924 | — | — | 527 | #251 |
| 1923 | — | — | 507 | #249 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,680 | 540 | #243 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,757 | 487 | #257 |
| 1920 | — | — | 488 | #248 |
| 1919 | — | — | 463 | #246 |
| 1918 | — | — | 503 | #239 |
| 1917 | — | — | 466 | #234 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,060 | 463 | #229 |
| 1915 | — | — | 425 | #233 |
| 1914 | — | — | 320 | #237 |
| 1913 | — | — | 284 | #221 |
| 1912 | — | — | 218 | #237 |
| 1911 | — | — | 123 | #231 |
| 1910 | — | — | 107 | #226 |
| 1909 | — | — | 115 | #192 |
| 1908 | — | — | 118 | #183 |
| 1907 | — | — | 74 | #241 |
| 1906 | — | — | 71 | #233 |
| 1905 | — | — | 72 | #231 |
| 1904 | — | — | 81 | #205 |
| 1903 | — | — | 70 | #215 |
| 1902 | — | — | 78 | #203 |
| 1901 | — | — | 64 | #212 |
| 1900 | — | — | 95 | #201 |
| 1899 | — | — | 65 | #204 |
| 1898 | — | — | 74 | #203 |
| 1897 | — | — | 61 | #215 |
| 1896 | — | — | 100 | #162 |
| 1895 | — | — | 75 | #196 |
| 1894 | — | — | 100 | #154 |
| 1893 | — | — | 71 | #203 |
| 1892 | — | — | 76 | #200 |
| 1891 | — | — | 77 | #169 |
| 1890 | — | — | 67 | #199 |
| 1889 | — | — | 59 | #218 |
| 1888 | — | — | 79 | #189 |
| 1887 | — | — | 78 | #162 |
| 1886 | — | — | 66 | #204 |
| 1885 | — | — | 65 | #198 |
| 1884 | — | — | 69 | #195 |
| 1883 | — | — | 48 | #228 |
| 1882 | — | — | 50 | #237 |
| 1881 | — | — | 47 | #223 |
| 1880 | — | — | 54 | #219 |
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).