Sherrilynn

Girls' name

Combination of Sherry and Lynn

Sherrilynn has been given to 210 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1963, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Sherrilynn, 1991

1 in 779,000

Sherrilynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherrilynn: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Sherry and Lynn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherrilynn means

Sherrilynn is a compound of Sherry and Lynn.

Origin, language, and formation

Sherrilynn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sherry and Lynn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 210 girls were recorded with the name Sherrilynn between 1951 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,413 in 1963.

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 Sherrilynn?

Sherrilynn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991: 1 in 779,000; 5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 375,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 539,676 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sherrilynn 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherrilynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherrilynns were born

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

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 32.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 210; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Sherrilynn 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1963 (26)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,413; 1963

Spellings of Sherrilynn

Sherrilynn is not the most common spelling — Sherilyn is, with 81.3% against Sherrilynn's 4.3%.

Sherilyn81.3%3,930
Sherrilyn14.3%691
Sherrilynn4.3%210

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 Sherrilynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherrilynn was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Sherrilynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sherrilynn around the world

Where Sherrilynn 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 Australia
1971–1971
#724
in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sherrilynn 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: #2,413; 1963
Peak year: 1963; 26 that year
First recorded: 1951
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 210
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sherrilynn

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

Sibling names for Sherrilynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jonna Edie Pennie Nannette Alesia Moira Lolita Lanette

For a brother

Greggory Berry Chet Rob Richie Vince Kennedy Tod

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