Sherwood
Sherwood is a boy's name that peaked in 1938, when it was the 532nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,200 Sherwoods are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sherwood boys named Sherwood
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,682
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1938
- Best rank
- 532nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 5,671
How old the living Sherwoods are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,682 babies given the name since 1891, about 2,200 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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 Sherwoods
- Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)American writer
- F. Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012)American chemist
- Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944)American astronaut
- Sherwood Stewart (born 1946)American tennis player
- Sherwood Schwartz (1916–2011)American television writer and producer
People named Sherwood with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sherwood is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sherwood is most concentrated in Maine (7.3×), North Carolina (6.4×), Virginia (4.6×), Pennsylvania (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1938
The most popular boys’ names the year Sherwood peaked:
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Sherwood 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.