Meaning not yet researched.
Sherwin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #764 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #764 in 1935; #8,811 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sherwin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,811 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #764.
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Sherwin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #764 in 1935 · most boys in one year: 66 (1935).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Sherwin, making it the 8,811th most common boys’ name of the year, up 65 places from #8,876 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 boys named Sherwin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #764, reached in 1935. That year also had the most boys given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #6,262 in 2015 and #955 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sherwin in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 3,784 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 493 babies named Sherwin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 116 US boys were named Sherwin; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Sherwyn 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: Sherwyn (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.
No nicknames listed for Sherwin 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,811 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,876 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,814 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,101 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,521 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,239 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,763 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,649 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,286 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,757 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,262 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,038 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,874 |
| 2012 | — | — | 7 | #10,587 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,970 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,498 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,180 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #6,017 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,772 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,831 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,799 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,569 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,394 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,541 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,603 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,038 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,680 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,077 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,891 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,585 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,436 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,300 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,391 |
| 1992 | — | — | 50 | #1,727 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,221 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,040 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,988 |
| 1988 | — | — | 39 | #1,788 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,502 |
| 1986 | — | — | 46 | #1,489 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,350 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,502 |
| 1983 | — | — | 46 | #1,395 |
| 1982 | — | — | 41 | #1,534 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,474 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,289 |
| 1979 | — | — | 50 | #1,317 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,228 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,404 |
| 1976 | — | — | 48 | #1,284 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,424 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,305 |
| 1973 | — | — | 56 | #1,090 |
| 1972 | — | — | 47 | #1,208 |
| 1971 | — | — | 57 | #1,089 |
| 1970 | — | — | 56 | #1,101 |
| 1969 | — | — | 47 | #1,148 |
| 1968 | — | — | 41 | #1,204 |
| 1967 | — | — | 35 | #1,284 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,455 | 42 | #1,158 |
| 1965 | — | — | 30 | #1,423 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,658 | 37 | #1,309 |
| 1963 | — | — | 24 | #1,657 |
| 1962 | — | — | 22 | #1,752 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,492 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,576 |
| 1959 | — | — | 40 | #1,245 |
| 1958 | — | — | 38 | #1,264 |
| 1957 | — | — | 44 | #1,183 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,283 |
| 1955 | — | — | 42 | #1,163 |
| 1954 | — | — | 50 | #1,065 |
| 1953 | — | — | 57 | #957 |
| 1952 | — | — | 49 | #1,042 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,113 | 51 | #991 |
| 1950 | — | — | 53 | #955 |
| 1949 | — | — | 50 | #996 |
| 1948 | — | — | 47 | #1,033 |
| 1947 | — | — | 41 | #1,144 |
| 1946 | — | — | 48 | #975 |
| 1945 | — | — | 37 | #1,070 |
| 1944 | — | — | 32 | #1,190 |
| 1943 | — | — | 41 | #1,072 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,108 |
| 1941 | — | — | 36 | #1,106 |
| 1940 | — | — | 42 | #1,005 |
| 1939 | — | — | 37 | #1,068 |
| 1938 | — | — | 49 | #909 |
| 1937 | — | — | 38 | #1,054 |
| 1936 | — | — | 58 | #810 |
| 1935 | — | — | 66 | #764 |
| 1934 | — | — | 46 | #938 |
| 1933 | — | — | 46 | #933 |
| 1932 | — | — | 41 | #1,052 |
| 1931 | — | — | 52 | #899 |
| 1930 | — | — | 52 | #940 |
| 1929 | — | — | 55 | #912 |
| 1928 | — | — | 45 | #1,040 |
| 1927 | — | — | 42 | #1,108 |
| 1926 | — | — | 27 | #1,429 |
| 1925 | — | — | 41 | #1,104 |
| 1924 | — | — | 27 | #1,485 |
| 1923 | — | — | 25 | #1,543 |
| 1922 | — | — | 31 | #1,331 |
| 1921 | — | — | 20 | #1,819 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,686 |
| 1919 | — | — | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,150 |
| 1917 | — | — | 17 | #1,890 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,689 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,955 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,955 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,473 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,855 |
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).