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Sherri vs Sherron

American parents have registered 83,843 Sherris since 1880, against 3,473 Sherrons. Sherri is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sherri against Sherron, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sherri Sherron

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 94 years in which either name was published, Sherri for 87 years and Sherron for 7 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Sherri Sherron
Total US births 83,8433,473
Most in one year 5,472145
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 74,0002,700
Median age today 6060
Peak year 19631947
Best rank 78th girls719th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19241933
Girls / boys 83,667 / 1762,947 / 526

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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