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Sheridan

#5,374 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

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Sheridan has been given to 8,372 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #5,374 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 305 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% girls, 33% boys all-time.

Babies named Sheridan, 2025

1 in 138,000

Sheridan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Sheridan over time

In 2025, Sheridan went to 75% girls and 25% boys.

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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.

Sheridan: meaning, origin, and history

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surname transfer

What Sheridan means

Sheridan may mean “searcher”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sheridan is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Sheridan comes through Irish Ó Sirideáin.

Sheridan is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sheridan is pronounced /ˈʃɛɹɪdən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,604 girls were recorded with the name Sheridan between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 305 in 2001; its best national rank was #780 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,881 in 2020 to #5,374 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,287 in 2015 to #5,374 in 2025.

In the United States, 2,768 boys were recorded with the name Sheridan between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1941; its best national rank was #492 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,732 in 2020 to #9,575 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sheridan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,374
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheridan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheridan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sheridans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheridan was born before 1997 — so the typical Sheridan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,056
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2000s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (1,757).

Is Sheridan 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
+751
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,507
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,087
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.9%
Peak was 2001 (305)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#780
2001

Spellings of Sheridan

Sheridan is the most-used spelling, taking 28.0% of the 20,035 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Sheridan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sheridan was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 58,070 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  2. 2Arizona1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Sheridan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Sheridan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sheridan was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 295,536 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Sheridan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sheridan around the world

Where Sheridan 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
    1996–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1991–1995
    #440
    in 1995
  • France
    1996–2006
    #4,343
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sheridan

People whose public names include Sheridan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sheridan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sheridan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sherilyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sheridan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,374
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,507
Best rank ever
#780
2001
Peak year
2001
305 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,604
Count in 2025
24

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,575
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,157
Best rank ever
#492
1891
Peak year
1941
52 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,768
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sheridan

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

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Names with a curve like Sheridan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sheridan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sheridan

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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