Sherlyn
Sherlyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 367th, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2006887 births
- Best rank
- #367in 2006
- Since 1936
- 8,880people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,880 girls have been named Sherlyn in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 887 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sherlyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 19 | |
| 1940s | 313 | |
| 1950s | 506 | |
| 1960s | 393 | |
| 1970s | 187 | |
| 1980s | 119 | |
| 1990s | 104 | |
| 2000s | 3,670 | |
| 2010s | 2,918 | |
| 2020s | 651 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Sherlyn was the 367th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Sherlyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jizellepeak 2008
- Kadencepeak 2005
- Cadencepeak 2007
- Caryspeak 2006
- Aaniyahpeak 2008
- Daniyapeak 2007
- Saniyapeak 2007
- Kloiepeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.