Sherlin

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births

Peak · girls
2006 · 121 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
774
since 1951

Sherlin over time

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Rank among girls' names. Sherlin has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201951peak #1,722, 2006girls
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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
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rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#12,1617
2023#13,4626
2022#13,5926
2021#9,56210
2020#12,1427
2019#13,7996
2018#13,7936
2017#15,9025
2016#12,8767
2015#6,23620
2014#7,30216
2013#5,14326
2012#4,95728
2011#4,56831
2010#2,69166
2009#3,29850
2008#3,08455
2007#2,34881
2006#1,722121
2005#2,82758
2004#2,28676
2003#2,95651
2002#6,12918
2001#12,0567
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Sherlin! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951–2000, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Sherlin is popular in 1951

No state had 5 or more girls named Sherlin in 1951, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Sherlin
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,781 spots since 2024 (#12,161#14,942)
  • 2,800 spots since 2020 (#12,142#14,942)
  • 8,706 spots since 2015 (#6,236#14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
55 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 2006 at #1,722 (121 births)
  • Births halved by 2008, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,712
  • Highest: 1 in 15,712 girls born in 2006 were named Sherlin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 66.8% of all girls named Sherlin (517) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,414 (1951)#5,414
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s517#1,722 (2006)#4,078
2010s211#2,691 (2010)#8,727
2020s41#9,562 (2021)#12,644

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.

Sherlin in 1951

girls
#5,414
5 births · 1 in 360,172 girls

Top girls' names in 1951

  1. #1Linda73,982
  2. #2Mary65,721
  3. #3Patricia56,446
  4. #4Deborah42,053
  5. #5Barbara40,617
  6. #6Susan40,228
  7. #7Nancy30,346
  8. #8Karen27,998
  9. #9Sandra27,665
  10. #10Kathleen26,716
  11. #5,414Sherlin5
More about 1951

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1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 360,172 of them was named Sherlin, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,213 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sherlin
  1. #4,833Zollie6
  2. #4,833Zonnie6
  3. #4,833Zorina6
  4. #5,414Sherlin5
  5. #5,414Abelina5
  6. #5,414Adlean5
  7. #5,414Adriene5

Tied with 799 names at #5,414; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1950
Risers
  1. 345Rhona#1,333#988
  2. 307Bobbi#1,153#846
  3. 296Ricki#1,090#794
  4. 295Mindy#771#476
  5. 288Sharleen#1,053#765
Fallers
  1. 395Sharman#668#1,063
  2. 343Manuela#773#1,116
  3. 294Allie#945#1,239
  4. 253Merrie#937#1,190
  5. 252Olive#891#1,143

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1951