Sherlyn
#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #8,732
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 887 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,954since 1936
Sherlyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Sherlyn has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #2,458 | 72 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,955 | 101 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,699 | 121 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,497 | 145 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,630 | 128 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,373 | 158 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,412 | 159 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,488 | 147 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,148 | 216 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,117 | 227 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,139 | 222 | — | |
| 2014 | #891 | 305 | — | |
| 2013 | #674 | 423 | — | |
| 2012 | #641 | 445 | — | |
| 2011 | #866 | 302 | — | |
| 2010 | #624 | 472 | — | |
| 2009 | #545 | 556 | — | |
| 2008 | #658 | 465 | — | |
| 2007 | #627 | 476 | — | |
| 2006 | #367 | 887 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #725 | 377 | — | |
| 2004 | #579 | 487 | — | |
| 2003 | #911 | 261 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,081 | 82 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,307 | 33 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,296 | 31 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,012 | 34 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,952 | 35 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,547 | 52 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,738 | 44 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,807 | 40 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,788 | 41 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,953 | 34 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,643 | 44 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,762 | 38 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,413 | 55 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,371 | 53 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,377 | 53 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,473 | 44 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,439 | 45 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,203 | 60 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,114 | 68 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,220 | 55 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,209 | 56 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,238 | 53 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,101 | 60 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,699 | 24 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,545 | 28 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,922 | 9 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sherlyn! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sherlyn is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#500 · 1 in 2,477
- Nevada#532 · 1 in 2,191
- Illinois#764 · 1 in 4,181
- Georgia#814 · 1 in 4,427
- California#839 · 1 in 5,008
Best ever in a state: #140 in Delaware, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #500 | 15 | 1 in 2,477 |
| Nevada | #532 | 5 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Illinois | #764 | 14 | 1 in 4,181 |
| Georgia | #814 | 11 | 1 in 4,427 |
| California | #839 | 41 | 1 in 5,008 |
| Texas | #852 | 34 | 1 in 4,990 |
| Minnesota | #870 | 5 | 1 in 4,893 |
| New York | #885 | 18 | 1 in 5,073 |
| Maryland | #889 | 5 | 1 in 4,820 |
| North Carolina | #896 | 9 | 1 in 5,045 |
| Florida | #942 | 15 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Virginia | #1,063 | 6 | 1 in 6,247 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sherlyn
- 503 spots since 2024 (#1,955 → #2,458)
- 1,085 spots since 2020 (#1,373 → #2,458)
- 1,319 spots since 2015 (#1,139 → #2,458)
- Biggest jump: 1,170 spots in 2003 (#2,081 → #911)
- Biggest drop: 260 spots in 2007 (#367 → #627)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 2006 at #367 (887 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2003–2014
- Highest: 1 in 2,143 girls born in 2006 were named Sherlyn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.0% of all girls named Sherlyn (3,670) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 19 | #2,922 (1939) | #3,815 |
| 1940s | 313 | #1,101 (1946) | #2,058 |
| 1950s | 506 | #1,114 (1950) | #1,438 |
| 1960s | 393 | #1,547 (1965) | #1,878 |
| 1970s | 187 | #2,307 (1970) | #3,820 |
| 1980s | 119 | #4,517 (1980) | #6,135 |
| 1990s | 104 | #4,671 (1993) | #7,914 |
| 2000s | 3,670 | #367 (2006) | #1,414 |
| 2010s | 2,918 | #624 (2010) | #1,000 |
| 2020s | 725 | #1,373 (2020) | #1,769 |
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.
Sherlyn in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
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1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 8,041 of them was named Sherlyn, which outranked 94.0% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,135Kelsie223
- #1,135Micaela223
- #1,135Rosalyn223
- #1,139Sherlyn222
- #1,139Maisy222
- #1,139Marlowe222
- #1,139Sally222
- #1,146Adilene221
- #1,146Aleigha221
- #1,146Aubriana221
Tied with 6 names at #1,139; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.