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Sherryl

Girls' name

Variant of Cheryl

Sherryl has been given to 4,109 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1957, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Sherryl, 1995

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sherryl: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cheryl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sherryl means

Sherryl is a variant of Cheryl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sherryl is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɛɹ.əl/ for Sherryl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cheryl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,104 girls were recorded with the name Sherryl between 1936 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 207 in 1957; its best national rank was #555 in 1946.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sherryl between 1946 and 1946. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1946; its best national rank was #3,954 in 1946.

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 Sherryl?

Sherryl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,850 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sherryl 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 1995 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 422,850 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sherryl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherryls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sherryl was born before 1955 — so the typical Sherryl is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,935
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1950s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (1,647).

Is Sherryl 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 1957 (207)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#555
1946

Spellings of Sherryl

Sherryl is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 47.5% against Sherryl's 0.44%.

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 Sherryl is used

Across 1910–2025, Sherryl was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 63,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Iowa1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Michigan1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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

Sherryl around the world

Where Sherryl 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
    1995–2006
    #3,679
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1950–1968
    #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.

Sherryl 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
#555
1946
Peak year
1957
207 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
4,104
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,954
1946
Peak year
1946
5 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
1946
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sherryl

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

SherylShelbieSherlynSheylaShelbiSheridanShealynSheritaShekinahSherronSherlinShelseaSheilahSherikaSherilynShenikaSherlyShellieSherrieSherrilSheronSherieShereenShemeka

Names with a curve like Sherryl

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

KaranCherylePamellaFranCathieCindaCheryllGlindaKaronDremaCorlissGaye

Sibling names for Sherryl

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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