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Sorrel

#10,018 in 2025Girls' name

Sour

Sorrel has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #10,018 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sorrel, 2025

1 in 332,000

Sorrel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sorrel: meaning, origin, and history

Sour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sorrel means

Sorrel means “sour”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sorrel is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 girls were recorded with the name Sorrel between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #9,594 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,200 in 2020 to #10,018 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,866 in 2015 to #10,018 in 2025.

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 Sorrel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,018
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sorrel 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sorrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sorrels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sorrel was born before 2014 — so the typical Sorrel is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Sorrel 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
+5,017
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,182
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,848
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (10)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,594
1973

Spellings of Sorrel

Sorrel is not the most common spelling — Torrey is, with 45.0% against Sorrel's 3.9%.

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.

Sorrel around the world

Where Sorrel 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–1976
    #516
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sorrel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,018
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,182
Best rank ever
#9,594
1973
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Sorrel

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

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Sibling names for Sorrel

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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