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Scheryl vs Schyler

American parents have registered 1,374 Schylers since 1880, against 335 Scheryls. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Scheryl against Schyler, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Scheryl Schyler

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Schyler for 40 years and Scheryl for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Scheryl Schyler
Total US births 3351,374
Most in one year 2898
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2601,300
Median age today 6929
Peak year 19561992
Best rank 2,058th girls1,778th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19431977
Girls / boys 335 / 0602 / 772

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Scheryls alive today are over 69; half the Schylers are over 29. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Scheryl and Schyler.