girls:
349 births since 1948
#5367 (6th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1933
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
354 births since 1933
#7385 (5th percentile)
The name Sherl is the #7,385 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 354 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,367 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 349 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1933.
Sherl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for boys and 1948 for girls). Birth data for Sherl is available in 26 out of the 46 years between 1933 and 1978 (25 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 Sherl has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1948, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1933 to 1947), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1948 to 1978).
For girls, Sherl reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #760) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
For boys, Sherl reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #521) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherl".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sherl is pronounced as sherl, which has 1 syllables.
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