girls:
1.5k births since 1945
#4265 (25th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1940
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1940
#6265 (19th percentile)
The name Sherell is the #6,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,480 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 19.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,265 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,475 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1940.
Sherell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for boys and 1945 for girls). Birth data for Sherell is available in 63 out of the 71 years between 1940 and 2010 (62 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sherell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1945, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1940 to 1944), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1945 to 2010).
For girls, Sherell reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #731) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 41 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
For boys, Sherell reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #525) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherell".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sherell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.1% confident that Sherell is pronounced as sher-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-REHL, at 21.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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