Sherene
Feminine
Sherene sits close to a Persian name that belongs to one half of a famous pair. Persian literature works that way: a small number of lover-couples are known by name to everybody, and referring to one is a complete argument.
How old is the name Sherene?
Sherene first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Sherene alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 700 people named Sherene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherene most popular?
Sherene peaked in 1972, reaching #2356 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sherene
Classical Persian poetry has a set of couples that function almost as vocabulary: Layla and Majnun, Khosrow and Shirin, Yusuf and Zulaikha, Farhad and Shirin. Each pair carries a specific idea about love, and a poet can invoke a whole argument by naming one. Farhad, the stonecutter who loves a queen and is set an impossible task carving through a mountain, stands for hopeless devotion so completely that his name is used as a common noun. The stories spread across Turkish, Urdu, Kurdish and Azerbaijani literature as well, so a single couple can be shared vocabulary across half a continent.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Shireen, the likely relative, means sweet in Persian and that reading is settled for it. Whether this spelling descends from that name or was built from the sound is not recorded.
Pronouncing Sherene
shuh-REEN
Two syllables with the weight on the second. In Persian the name is closer to shee-REEN.
Nicknames for Sherene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 197231 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2356reached in 1972
- Change vs 2004
- −16.7%5 in 2007, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sherene in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shirin in Persian — related form
Sherenes among us
people named Sherene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Sherene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The stress is unmistakable, so it is rarely mispronounced on a first reading.
- Sher and Reenie are both available as short forms and both work on their own.
- It is soft throughout with nothing difficult in it.
- Shireen, Sherine and Shereen are all in the record, so the spelling will be checked back with you.
- Anyone who knows the Persian name may treat this spelling as a mistake, which it is not exactly.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has two candidates and no answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Sherene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherene in 2025?
- Sherene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherene with classmates?
- Sherene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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