# Sherrill (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sherrill/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,847 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,915 / 6,932 (78% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 25 | 3,416 |
| 1982 | 24 | 3,513 |
| 1983 | 25 | 3,323 |
| 1984 | 21 | 3,855 |
| 1985 | 23 | 3,715 |
| 1986 | 16 | 4,931 |
| 1987 | 16 | 5,047 |
| 1988 | 15 | 5,570 |
| 1989 | 9 | 8,660 |
| 1990 | 11 | 7,806 |
| 1991 | 15 | 6,207 |
| 1992 | 5 | 15,240 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,621 |
| 1994 | 10 | 8,703 |
| 1997 | 8 | 10,678 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 14 | 2,299 |
| 1965 | 15 | 2,161 |
| 1966 | 13 | 2,315 |
| 1967 | 15 | 2,126 |
| 1968 | 15 | 2,180 |
| 1969 | 9 | 3,279 |
| 1970 | 10 | 3,247 |
| 1971 | 11 | 3,117 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,634 |
| 1973 | 10 | 3,418 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,892 |
| 1975 | 11 | 3,401 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,722 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,935 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,417 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.