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Sherita

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sherita has been given to 4,022 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1981, with 237 recorded.

Babies named Sherita, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherita: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherita means

Sherita is a given name.

The naming story behind Sherita

Wikidata records Sherita as a given name. The entity identifier is Q109579003, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,022 girls were recorded with the name Sherita between 1949 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 237 in 1981; its best national rank was #709 in 1981.

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 Sherita?

Sherita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherita 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sheritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherita was born before 1980 — so the typical Sherita is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,013
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (1,656).

Is Sherita 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 1981 (237)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#709
1981

Spellings of Sherita

Sherita is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 58.1% against Sherita's 0.98%.

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 Sherita is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 46,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 9,091
  2. 2Alabama1 in 14,286
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
  4. 4Virginia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 25,000

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

Notable people named Sherita

People whose public names include Sherita, 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.

Sherita 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
#709
1981
Peak year
1981
237 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
4,022
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sherita

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

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Names with a curve like Sherita

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

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Sibling names for Sherita

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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