Meaning not yet researched.
Sheryl: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #112 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #112 in 1957; #8,281 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sheryl in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,281 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #112.
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Sheryl: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #112 in 1957 · most girls in one year: 4,133 (1957).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Sheryl, making it the 8,281st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,858 places from #5,423 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 24 girls named Sheryl in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #112, reached in 1957. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,133. For comparison, it was #7,226 in 2015 and #145 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sheryl in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 7 babies. In all, 79,026 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 30,445 babies named Sheryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202 US girls were named Sheryl; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sherry (230,913 babies since 1880), Sherilyn (3,930 babies since 1880), Sherryl (4,109 babies since 1880) and Sherril (1,775 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sherill, Sherrel and Sheril are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cheri, Cherie, Sher, Sheri, Sherri and Sherry.
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: Sherill (1,080), Sherrel (880), Sheril (709), Sheral (423), Shirel (373), Sherral (183), Sherel (139), Sherryll (109), Sherial (93), Sherol (72), Shiryl (72), Sherrol (61), and more.
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 | 13 | #8,281 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,202 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,974 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,879 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,977 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,717 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,226 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,772 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,130 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,835 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,640 | — | — |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,056 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,079 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,260 | — | — |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1989 | 135 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1988 | 153 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1987 | 175 | #939 | — | — |
| 1986 | 198 | #843 | — | — |
| 1985 | 198 | #825 | — | — |
| 1984 | 220 | #743 | — | — |
| 1983 | 218 | #750 | — | — |
| 1982 | 300 | #601 | — | — |
| 1981 | 319 | #580 | — | — |
| 1980 | 357 | #530 | — | — |
| 1979 | 412 | #491 | — | — |
| 1978 | 445 | #445 | — | — |
| 1977 | 386 | #494 | — | — |
| 1976 | 452 | #438 | — | — |
| 1975 | 575 | #362 | — | — |
| 1974 | 675 | #329 | — | — |
| 1973 | 795 | #295 | 6 | #4,994 |
| 1972 | 953 | #273 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,192 | #246 | 6 | #4,834 |
| 1970 | 1,471 | #214 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,704 | #186 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,885 | #172 | 8 | #3,328 |
| 1967 | 2,241 | #154 | 10 | #2,742 |
| 1966 | 2,211 | #158 | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1965 | 2,535 | #147 | — | — |
| 1964 | 2,957 | #135 | 5 | #4,526 |
| 1963 | 3,105 | #135 | 8 | #3,283 |
| 1962 | 3,240 | #134 | — | — |
| 1961 | 3,125 | #140 | 6 | #4,004 |
| 1960 | 3,055 | #142 | 10 | #2,844 |
| 1959 | 3,540 | #128 | 7 | #3,567 |
| 1958 | 3,792 | #121 | 5 | #4,426 |
| 1957 | 4,133 | #112 | 11 | #2,614 |
| 1956 | 3,891 | #114 | 8 | #3,171 |
| 1955 | 3,412 | #125 | — | — |
| 1954 | 2,930 | #133 | 7 | #3,421 |
| 1953 | 2,400 | #148 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 1952 | 2,242 | #151 | 6 | #3,680 |
| 1951 | 1,934 | #161 | 5 | #4,182 |
| 1950 | 2,110 | #145 | 5 | #4,129 |
| 1949 | 1,971 | #149 | 9 | #2,775 |
| 1948 | 2,008 | #144 | 8 | #2,978 |
| 1947 | 1,835 | #163 | 13 | #2,235 |
| 1946 | 1,632 | #165 | 11 | #2,386 |
| 1945 | 1,055 | #194 | 7 | #2,963 |
| 1944 | 950 | #207 | 9 | #2,610 |
| 1943 | 588 | #287 | 5 | #3,977 |
| 1942 | 324 | #399 | — | — |
| 1941 | 195 | #499 | — | — |
| 1940 | 155 | #556 | — | — |
| 1939 | 135 | #578 | — | — |
| 1938 | 154 | #549 | — | — |
| 1937 | 77 | #786 | 5 | #3,941 |
| 1936 | 57 | #908 | — | — |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,159 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,393 | — | — |
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).