Sherron

Where Sherron comes from

Sherron hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #3,753 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1943
    Peak, #710
    117 babies named Sherron — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,362.
  4. 1971
    Sherron Mills born
    American basketball player
  5. 1987
    Sherron Collins born
    American basketball player
  6. 2001
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sherron Mills · American basketball player, 1971–2016
  • Sherron Collins · American basketball player, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.