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Sherron

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sherron has been given to 3,473 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 1947, with 140 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% girls, 15% boys all-time.

Babies named Sherron, 2000

1 in 343,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2021, Sherron went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19332021

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.

Sherron: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherron means

Sherron is a given name.

The naming story behind Sherron

Wikidata records Sherron as a given name. The entity identifier is Q102220182, 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, 2,947 girls were recorded with the name Sherron between 1933 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1947; its best national rank was #713 in 1943.

In the United States, 526 boys were recorded with the name Sherron between 1936 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,999 in 1977.

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 Sherron?

Sherron had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 343,000
11 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 165,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
238,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherron 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 2000 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 238,097 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherrons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherron was born before 1956 — so the typical Sherron is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,850
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1940s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (972).

Is Sherron 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 1947 (140)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#713
1943

Spellings of Sherron

Sherron is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 64.6% against Sherron's 0.26%.

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 Sherron is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sherron was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 119,305 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Sherron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Sherron is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sherron was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,430,492 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sherron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sherron around the world

Where Sherron 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
    1946–1977
    #637
    in 1977

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

Notable people named Sherron

People whose public names include Sherron, 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.

Sherron 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
#713
1943
Peak year
1947
140 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
2,947
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,999
1977
Peak year
1977
25 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
526
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sherron

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

SheronShearonShelbieShealynShekinahSherlynSheylaSherlinShelbiSheridanShelseaSheilahSheritaSherrylSherikaKameronShenikaSherlySherrilShereenShemekaSheryllSherreeShenita

Names with a curve like Sherron

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

SusannPaulettaKarrenSuellenJerilynGlyndaLonnaSharenGeorgeannLarryRuthanneSharleen

Sibling names for Sherron

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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