girls:
11 births since 1923
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1891
#1578 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1891
#3613 (53rd percentile)
The name Sherwood is the #3,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,673 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 53.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,578 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 5,662 births since 1891. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1923.
Sherwood first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for boys and 1923 for girls). Birth data for Sherwood is available in 121 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Sherwood has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sherwood reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 21.8% percentile (ranked #410) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 106 births per million (ranked 21.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sherwood ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sherwood reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #609) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1947.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherwood".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sherwood is pronounced as SHER-wood, which has 2 syllables.
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