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Sherilyn

Girls' name

Variant of Cherilyn

Sherilyn has been given to 3,930 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1946, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Sherilyn, 2024

1 in 478,000

Sherilyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherilyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cherilyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherilyn means

Sherilyn is a variant of Cherilyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sherilyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɛɹ.ə.lɪn/ for Sherilyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cherilyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,930 girls were recorded with the name Sherilyn between 1933 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 120 in 1946; its best national rank was #747 in 1946.

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 Sherilyn?

Sherilyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherilyn 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherilyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherilyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherilyn was born before 1963 — so the typical Sherilyn is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,238
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1950s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (917).

Is Sherilyn 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (120)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#747
1946

Spellings of Sherilyn

Sherilyn is not the most common spelling — Sherlyn is, with 20.0% against Sherilyn's 8.8%.

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 Sherilyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherilyn was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 86,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Utah1 in 33,333
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Sherilyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sherilyn around the world

Where Sherilyn 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
    1996–2000
    #3,247
    in 2000
  • Scotland
    1994–1994
    #554
    in 1994
  • France
    1991–2009
    #3,981
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1952–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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 Sherilyn

People whose public names include Sherilyn, 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.

Sherilyn in other languages

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

CheriCherieCherylSherylCherilynSheridanSherrellSherilan

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

Sherilyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#747
1946
Peak year
1946
120 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,930
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sherilyn

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

SherlynShealynSheralynSherrilynSheridanSheilynSherolynShekinahShelbieJackelynJessalynJosselynShealynnSheylaSherrellJaquelynSherelynCherilynJoycelynSherrillEmberlynShelbiSherrlynJoscelyn

Names with a curve like Sherilyn

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

KathleneDreamaGaryCherrieMartyLonnaJoellenSuzannDarnellRonnaTonieCaron

Sibling names for Sherilyn

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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