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Sherley

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County + meadow, through Shirley

Sherley has been given to 1,502 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1947, with 30 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% girls, 18% boys all-time.

Babies named Sherley, 2023

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2023, Sherley went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19102023

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.

Sherley: meaning, origin, and history

County + meadow, through Shirley

surname transfer

What Sherley means

Sherley belongs to the name family reached through Sherley → Shirley. Its meaning is “county + meadow”.

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shirley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,238 girls were recorded with the name Sherley between 1910 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,544 in 1934.

In the United States, 264 boys were recorded with the name Sherley between 1915 and 1949. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1936; its best national rank was #1,717 in 1936.

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 Sherley?

Sherley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherley 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherley was born before 1958 — so the typical Sherley is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
730
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1940s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Sherley 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (30)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,544
1934

Spellings of Sherley

Sherley is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 51.8% against Sherley's 0.09%.

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 Sherley is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherley was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 280,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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

Sherley around the world

Where Sherley 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.

  • France
    1975–2024
    #4,666
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sherley 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,544
1934
Peak year
1947
30 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,238
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,717
1936
Peak year
1936
17 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1949
All-time count
264
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sherley

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

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Sibling names for Sherley

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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