Sherina
Feminine
Sherina is an American name of the built kind, and its front syllable opens one of the oldest job titles in the English-speaking world, a title that has survived from Anglo-Saxon county government into American county politics without ever quite changing its name.
How old is the name Sherina?
Sherina first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Sherina alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 800 people named Sherina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherina most popular?
Sherina peaked in 1985, reaching #1604 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sherina
A sheriff is a shire-reeve, and both halves are Old English. A shire was the administrative division that became the county, and a reeve was the king's officer in a place, the man responsible for collecting what was owed and keeping order. Put them together, wear them down for a thousand years, and you get one word. The office crossed to America and is now elected rather than appointed in most states, which would have astonished everybody involved in its invention. The reeve half survives elsewhere too: Chaucer gives one of the Canterbury pilgrims that job, and the word is still in the surnames Reeve and Reeves. Sherina has no documented connection to any of this. But the syllable in front of it is an English county officer with a very long service record.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Sheri, Sherry and Shereen have all been proposed as sources, and the ending is the one American naming attached freely to anything. Nothing documents a parent for this form.
Pronouncing Sherina
shuh-REE-nuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is light enough to disappear in quick speech.
Nicknames for Sherina
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
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 198574 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1604reached in 1985
- Change vs 2004
- +40.0%7 in 2005, from 5
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.
Sherinas among us
people named Sherina 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
Sherina 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
- Sheri and Rina both come off it as short forms without any work.
- Three open syllables with a strong middle stress carry well and are easy to hear.
- It is rare on paper while being made entirely of familiar sounds.
- It will be written Sharina, Shereena and Shirina by people working from sound.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing settled to answer with.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for some listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Sherina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherina in 2025?
- Sherina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherina with classmates?
- Sherina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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