Sherika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sherika has been given to 1,967 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 126 recorded.
Babies named Sherika, 2003
1 in 634,000
Sherika over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sherika?
Sherika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 634,000
- 6 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 304,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,159 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sherika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sherikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherika was born before 1984 — so the typical Sherika is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 54.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,967
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (1,078).
Is Sherika 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
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- Not ranked then
- 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (126)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Sherika
Sherika is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 44.3% against Sherika's 0.36%.
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 Sherika is used
Across 1910–2025, Sherika was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 83,754 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 20,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 3Florida1 in 33,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Alabama1 in 50,000
- 8Tennessee1 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. Sherika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sherika around the world
Where Sherika 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 & Wales2002–2010#5,707in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Sherika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sherika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sherika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.