Sherrell
Recorded 1914–2017 · United States
Sherrell was most popular in 1989, when 86 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,672 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,221 people named Sherrell.
Sherrell over time
How old is the name Sherrell?
Sherrell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 90 of the 112 years since. It was last recorded in 2017.
How many people are named Sherrell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,221 American births named Sherrell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,640 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sherrell in 2025?
Sherrell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Sherrell getting more or less popular?
Sherrell is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Sherrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sherrell is mostly a girl’s name — 86.4% of the 3,221 Americans given it were girls and 13.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 1942 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sherrell?
Roughly 2,640 Americans named Sherrell are alive today — 82% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 39 and 65.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sherrell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org