Sheryel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sheryel has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1954, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Sheryel, 1954
1 in 663,000
Sheryel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sheryel?
Sheryel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1954
- 1 in 663,000
- 6 of 3,979,464 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1954
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,727 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sheryel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,727 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheryel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheryels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheryel was born before 1952 — so the typical Sheryel is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 68.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Sheryel 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (6)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sheryel
Sheryel is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 78.0% against Sheryel's <0.01%.
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.
Sheryel around the world
Where Sheryel 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 Australia1947–1947#366in 1947
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sheryel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sheryel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sheryel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.