Sheryl
About 79,026 American babies have been named Sheryl since 1921, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 65,000 Sheryls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sheryl boys named Sheryl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 79,026
- Estimated living today
- 65,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 112th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1921
- Girls / boys
- 78,826 / 200
How old the living Sheryls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 79,026 babies given the name since 1921, about 65,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 410 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sheryls
- Sheryl Sandberg (born 1969)American technology executive, activist, and author
- Sheryl Crow (born 1962)American musician
- Sheryl Lee (born 1967)American actress
- Sheryl Lee Ralph (born 1956)American actress and singer
- Sheryl Swoopes (born 1971)American basketball player
- Sheryl Rubio (born 1992)Venezuelan actress, singer, model, composer and fashion designer
People named Sheryl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sheryl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sheryl is most concentrated in Iowa (2.8×), Kansas (2.3×), Nebraska (1.9×), South Dakota (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Sheryl peaked:
Sheryl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Sheryl | 1,688 | 50th |
| France girls | Sheryl +1 spelling | 535 | 1,115th |
| Scotland girls | Sheryl | 352 | 198th |
| England and Wales girls | Sheryl | 88 | 1,450th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sheryl among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Sheryl | 7 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sheryl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.