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Sheryl vs Sheryle

American parents have registered 79,026 Sheryls since 1880, against 1,214 Sheryles. Sheryl is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sheryl against Sheryle, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sheryl Sheryle

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

Sheryl has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Sheryl had 118 and Sheryle had 7.

Side by side

  Sheryl Sheryle
Total US births 79,0261,214
Most in one year 4,14464
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 65,000950
Median age today 6568
Peak year 19571958
Best rank 112th girls1,322nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19211938
Girls / boys 78,826 / 2001,214 / 0

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 Sheryles alive today are over 68; half the Sheryls are over 65. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Sheryl and Sheryle.