# Sherwood (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sherwood/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,682 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,671 / 11 (0% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 6 | 4,896 |
| 1947 | 5 | 6,009 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | 12,248 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,942 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12,054 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,757 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,550 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,740 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,701 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,942 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,067 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,922 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9,423 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,614 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,703 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,033 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,735 |

## People named Sherwood

- Sherwood Anderson, American writer (1876–1941)
- F. Sherwood Rowland, American chemist (1927–2012)
- Sherwood C. Spring, American astronaut
- Sherwood Stewart, American tennis player
- Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (1916–2011)
- Sherwood Boehlert, American politician (1936–2021)
- Sherwood Washburn, American archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian and paleoanthropologist (1911–2000)
- Adriance Sherwood Foster, American botanist (1901-1973)
- Sherwood Bailey, film actor (1923-1987)
- Alfred Romer, American paleontologist (1894-1973)
- Bob Haggart, American double bass player, composer, and arranger (1914–1998)

## 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.