Sherma
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sherma has been given to 319 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1944, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Sherma, 1964
1 in 486,000
Sherma 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sherma?
Sherma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 486,000
- 8 of 3,887,460 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 237,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 336,824 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sherma sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 336,824 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shermas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherma was born before 1946 — so the typical Sherma is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 120
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Sherma 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 1944 (18)
- Years since peak
- 81
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sherma
Sherma is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 18.8% against Sherma's 0.03%.
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 Sherma is used
Across 1910–2025, Sherma was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 127,050 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 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. Sherma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sherma around the world
Where Sherma 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.
- South Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sherma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sherma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sherma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.