Sherril
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sherril has been given to 1,775 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 1953, with 77 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.
Babies named Sherril, 1986
1 in 593,000
Sherril 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sherril over time
In 1986, Sherril went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Sherril?
Sherril had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1986
- 1 in 593,000
- 6 of 3,556,724 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 286,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 410,890 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sherril sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sherrils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherril was born before 1954 — so the typical Sherril is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,076
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (623).
Is Sherril 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 1953 (77)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sherril
Sherril is not the most common spelling — Sherry is, with 42.9% against Sherril's 0.30%.
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 Sherril is used
Across 1910–2025, Sherril was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,949 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Sherril has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sherril around the world
Where Sherril 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 Australia1954–1980#634in 1980
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sherril by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sherril
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sherril
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.