Recorded 1912–1997 · United States
Sherrill was most popular in 1947, when 334 American babies were given the name — ranking #810 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 8,847 people named Sherrill.
Sherrill first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 84 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 1997.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 8,847 American births named Sherrill 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 5,621 are estimated to be alive today.
Sherrill 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.
Across the whole record Sherrill is a unisex name — 78.3% of the 8,847 Americans given it were girls and 21.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 1934 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
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.
Roughly 5,621 Americans named Sherrill are alive today — 64% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 64 and 79.
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.
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