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Sheryll

Girls' name

Variant of Cheryl

Sheryll has been given to 1,558 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 1955, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Sheryll, 1987

1 in 601,000

Sheryll over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sheryll: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cheryl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sheryll means

Sheryll is a variant of Cheryl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sheryll is used in English.

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cheryl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,558 girls were recorded with the name Sheryll between 1936 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1955; its best national rank was #997 in 1955.

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 Sheryll?

Sheryll had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 601,000
6 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 290,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheryll 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 1987 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 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheryll. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sherylls were born

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

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,134
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1950s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (670).

Is Sheryll 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 1955 (101)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#997
1955

Spellings of Sheryll

Sheryll is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 78.5% against Sheryll's 0.28%.

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 Sheryll is used

Across 1910–2025, Sheryll was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 261,257 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Sheryll has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sheryll around the world

Where Sheryll 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
    1950–1968
    #679
    in 1968

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

Sheryll 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
#997
1955
Peak year
1955
101 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
1,558
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sheryll

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

ShealynSherlinShelseaSherryllShekinahSherlyKendyllSherreeShemekaShenitaShereenShelbieShericeSherrilSherellShemikaShealynnShenikaSherleySherikaSheryleSheilySheilahSherill

Sibling names for Sheryll

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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