girls:
15 births since 1951
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1912
#2024 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1912
#4476 (42nd percentile)
The name Sherwin is the #4,476 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,765 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 42.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,024 (55.8% percentile) for all time with 3,750 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1951.
Sherwin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1951 for girls).
The name Sherwin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sherwin reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 11.8% percentile (ranked #455) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 62 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sherwin ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 8.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sherwin reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #741) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherwin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sherwin is pronounced as SHER-wihn, which has 2 syllables.
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