Sherita
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 237 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,022since 1949
Sherita over time
Rank among girls' names. Sherita has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
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| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1991 | #1,779 | 80 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 1989 | #1,506 | 95 |
| 1988 | #1,261 | 116 |
| 1987 | #1,038 | 149 |
| 1986 | #1,177 | 120 |
| 1985 | #898 | 177 |
| 1984 | #940 | 156 |
| 1983 | #845 | 181 |
| 1982 | #741 | 227 |
| 1981 | #708 | 237 |
| 1980 | #812 | 198 |
| 1979 | #818 | 193 |
| 1978 | #867 | 169 |
| 1977 | #1,009 | 133 |
| 1976 | #877 | 152 |
| 1975 | #978 | 126 |
| 1974 | #905 | 140 |
| 1973 | #1,001 | 118 |
| 1972 | #972 | 124 |
| 1971 | #1,015 | 122 |
| 1970 | #1,224 | 91 |
| 1969 | #1,423 | 67 |
| 1968 | #1,311 | 71 |
| 1967 | #1,441 | 59 |
| 1966 | #1,430 | 59 |
| 1965 | #1,672 | 45 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 |
| 1963 | #1,815 | 41 |
| 1962 | #1,782 | 41 |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 |
| 1960 | #2,649 | 21 |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sherita! It came in at #3,612, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sherita
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Biggest jump: 142 spots in 1978 (#1,009 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 279 spots in 1986 (#898 → #1,177)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1981 at #708 (237 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1978–1985
- Highest: 1 in 7,038 girls born in 1981 were named Sherita (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,026 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
- 41.2% of all girls named Sherita (1,656) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 9 | #3,612 (1949) | #3,612 |
| 1950s | 128 | #2,260 (1958) | #3,577 |
| 1960s | 473 | #1,311 (1968) | #1,753 |
| 1970s | 1,368 | #818 (1979) | #967 |
| 1980s | 1,656 | #708 (1981) | #993 |
| 1990s | 339 | #1,755 (1990) | #5,159 |
| 2000s | 44 | #8,027 (2000) | #13,368 |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 5 | #15,306 (2022) | #15,306 |
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.
Sherita in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 10,482 of them was named Sherita, which outranked 91.2% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).