Sherwood

Where Sherwood comes from

Sherwood 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. 1876
    Sherwood Anderson born
    American writer
  2. 1891
    First appearance
    #963 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1938
    Peak, #532
    120 babies named Sherwood — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1944
    Sherwood C. Spring born
    American astronaut
  5. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,021.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Sherwood Anderson · American writer, 1876–1941
  • Sherwood C. Spring · American astronaut, born 1944
  • Sherwood Stewart · American tennis player, born 1946
  • Sherwood Schwartz · American television writer and producer, 1916–2011
  • Sherwood Boehlert · American politician, 1936–2021

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.