Sheridan
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 66.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 305 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,604since 1928
Sheridan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #4,232 | 34 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #1,792 | 119 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #1,639 | 129 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #1,400 | 153 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #1,170 | 192 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #1,071 | 207 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #981 | 225 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #778 | 305 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #842 | 264 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #1,023 | 199 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #1,046 | 188 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #915 | 218 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | #950 | 202 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #1,049 | 171 | #1,758 | 50 |
| 1994 | #1,055 | 172 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #1,171 | 150 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #1,284 | 133 | #1,804 | 46 |
| 1991 | #1,492 | 105 | #1,744 | 46 |
| 1990 | #1,688 | 87 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #1,834 | 72 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #2,992 | 29 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #1,864 | 29 |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | #2,138 | 24 |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | #1,765 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 | #1,753 | 32 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #2,205 | 21 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | #1,873 | 26 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | #1,753 | 28 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | #1,659 | 29 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 | #1,376 | 37 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | #1,603 | 29 |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 | #1,289 | 42 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 | #1,582 | 29 |
| 1969 | #1,980 | 40 | #1,526 | 28 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 | #1,614 | 24 |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #2,668 | 21 | #1,963 | 16 |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,306 | 27 | #1,792 | 20 |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 | #1,896 | 18 |
| 1961 | #2,117 | 31 | #1,876 | 19 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | #1,812 | 20 |
| 1959 | #2,339 | 24 | #1,709 | 22 |
| 1958 | #2,167 | 27 | #1,953 | 17 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 | #2,274 | 13 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #2,263 | 13 |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 | #2,302 | 12 |
| 1954 | #1,987 | 28 | #1,333 | 32 |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 | #1,765 | 19 |
| 1952 | #1,978 | 26 | #1,939 | 16 |
| 1951 | #1,383 | 46 | #1,774 | 18 |
| 1950 | #1,324 | 48 | #1,464 | 25 |
| 1949 | #1,335 | 47 | #1,128 | 39 |
| 1948 | #1,327 | 48 | #1,231 | 34 |
| 1947 | #1,055 | 71 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,078 | 62 | #1,003 | 46 |
| 1945 | #1,418 | 32 | #1,296 | 26 |
| 1944 | #1,079 | 52 | #1,173 | 32 |
| 1943 | #1,048 | 58 | #1,074 | 40 |
| 1942 | #1,195 | 44 | #1,007 | 44 |
| 1941 | #1,384 | 31 | #876 | 52 |
| 1940 | #1,591 | 24 | #994 | 42 |
| 1939 | #1,638 | 22 | #1,238 | 28 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 | #951 | 44 |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 | #1,288 | 27 |
| 1936 | #1,950 | 16 | #1,142 | 33 |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | #1,247 | 29 |
| 1934 | — | #1,293 | 27 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,586 | 19 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,191 | 12 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,538 | 21 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,428 | 26 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,443 | 25 | |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #1,188 | 36 |
| 1927 | — | #1,407 | 28 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,192 | 36 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,332 | 30 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,380 | 29 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,213 | 35 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,470 | 26 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,267 | 33 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,694 | 21 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,481 | 24 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,499 | 24 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,587 | 21 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,646 | 19 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,553 | 20 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,260 | 22 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,497 | 13 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,268 | 14 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,290 | 8 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | #1,009 | 6 | |
| 1902 | — | #1,013 | 6 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #885 | 7 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #982 | 6 | |
| 1895 | — | #795 | 8 | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | #476 | 14 | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1928
The first year at least five girls were named Sheridan! It came in at #4,195, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1935, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sheridan
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 724 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,238)
- 1,391 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #5,238)
- 1,006 spots since 2015 (#4,232 → #5,238)
- Biggest jump: 181 spots in 2000 (#1,023 → #842)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 2002 (#778 → #981)
Rise & fade · girls
73 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1928
- Peaked 2001 at #778 (305 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2000–2002
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,904
- Highest: 1 in 5,904 girls born in 2001 were named Sheridan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 31.4% of all girls named Sheridan (1,757) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1984
- Mostly boys until 1983, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #4,195 (1928) | #4,195 |
| 1930s | 73 | #1,638 (1939) | #2,411 |
| 1940s | 469 | #1,048 (1943) | #1,251 |
| 1950s | 297 | #1,324 (1950) | #2,001 |
| 1960s | 267 | #1,980 (1969) | #2,404 |
| 1970s | 258 | #2,001 (1971) | #2,947 |
| 1980s | 359 | #1,834 (1989) | #2,891 |
| 1990s | 1,625 | #915 (1997) | #1,167 |
| 2000s | 1,757 | #778 (2001) | #1,441 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,781 (2010) | #4,270 |
| 2020s | 119 | #5,126 (2023) | #6,136 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sheridan in 1922
boys
#1,470
26 births · 1 in 41,852 boys
Top boys' names in 1922
More about 1922
boys
1,088,154 boys got a published name in 1922; 1 in 41,852 of them was named Sheridan, which outranked 70.4% of the 4,967 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Ranked beside Sheridan
- #1,434Wells27
- #1,434West27
- #1,434Wheeler27
- #1,470Sheridan26
- #1,470Aldon26
- #1,470Allyn26
- #1,470Alvaro26
- #1,503Anastacio25
- #1,503Auston25
- #1,503Bartholomew25
Tied with 32 names at #1,470; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.