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Sher

#8,804 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Lion

Sher has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #8,804 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% boys, 41% girls all-time.

Babies named Sher, 2025

1 in 368,000

Sher over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sher over time

In 2025, Sher went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19532025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sher: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sher means

Sher means “lion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 177 boys were recorded with the name Sher between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,105 in 1981.

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Sher between 1953 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1972; its best national rank was #4,124 in 1956.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sher?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,804
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sher sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sher was born before 1994 — so the typical Sher is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
177
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1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Sher rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,952
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 2023 (16)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,105
1981

Spellings of Sher

Sher is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 40.0% against Sher's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sher is used

Across 1910–2025, Sher was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 645,656 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sher around the world

Where Sher ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–1996
    #425
    in 1996
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sher by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,804
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,105
1981
Peak year
2023
16 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
177
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,124
1956
Peak year
1972
14 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sher

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sher

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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