girls:
78.8k births since 1921
#437 (92nd percentile)
boys:
200 births since 1932
#4386 (4th percentile)
overall:
79k births since 1921
#806 (90th percentile)
The name Sheryl is the #806 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78,989 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 89.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #437 (92.4% percentile) for all time with 78,789 births since 1921. For boys, it ranks #4,386 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 200 births since 1932.
Sheryl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for girls and 1932 for boys). Birth data for Sheryl is available in 102 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (101 years for girls and 27 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 Sheryl has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sheryl reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 85.7% percentile (ranked #111) with 1,969 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 1,969 births per million (ranked 85.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sheryl ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sheryl reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #589) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sheryl".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sheryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sheryl is pronounced as SHEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables.
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