boys:
78 births since 1930
#4508 (2nd percentile)
overall:
78 births since 1930
#7661 (1st percentile)
The name Sherlock is the #7,661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,508 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1930.
Sherlock first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (first recorded for boys in 1930). Birth data for Sherlock is available in 11 out of the 93 years between 1930 and 2022. 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.
For boys, Sherlock reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #907) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherlock".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sherlock. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Sherlock is pronounced as SHER-lahk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHER-lawk, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH ER1 L AA0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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