Sheryl
Sheryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1957.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19574,132 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1957
- Since 1921
- 78,812people given the name
The story in the numbers
78,812 girls have been named Sheryl in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 4,132 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 24 births in 2024, against 4,132 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sheryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 61 | |
| 1930s | 527 | |
| 1940s | 10,713 | |
| 1950s | 30,383 | |
| 1960s | 26,058 | |
| 1970s | 7,356 | |
| 1980s | 2,273 | |
| 1990s | 749 | |
| 2000s | 361 | |
| 2010s | 243 | |
| 2020s | 88 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Sheryl was the 112th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Sheryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cherylpeak 1958
- Teresiapeak 1956
- Pamelapeak 1954
- Pamalapeak 1958
- Vickypeak 1957
- Lynnpeak 1956
- Vickeypeak 1957
- Gaylapeak 1954
Other spellings in the data
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.