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Sherrod

About 1,975 American babies have been named Sherrod since 1916, most of them around 1991. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,800 Sherrods are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Sherrod boys named Sherrod

By the numbers

Total US births
1,975
Estimated living today
1,800
Median age today
36
Peak year
1991
Best rank
1,336th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1916
Girls / boys
5 / 1,970

How old the living Sherrods are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,975 babies given the name since 1916, about 1,800 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Sherrods

People named Sherrod with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Sherrod is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sherrod is most concentrated in Georgia (7.8×), North Carolina (6.8×), Florida (6.0×), Virginia (5.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular boys’ names the year Sherrod peaked:

All the names of 1991

Related names

Sherrod against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.