Sherita
Feminine
Sherita puts its weight in the middle. English almost always leans on the first syllable of a name, and the names built with this ending do not: they lean on the second, which gives them a lift that most English names have to do without.
How old is the name Sherita?
Sherita first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Sherita alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 3,800 people named Sherita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherita most popular?
Sherita peaked in 1981, reaching #708 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Sherita
American naming built a large family on this pattern in the middle of the twentieth century, and the pattern is more interesting than any single member of it. English stress is front-loaded: Margaret, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Barbara all lean forward. The borrowed ending forces the stress backward, so that Sherita, Juanita, Lakita and Vernita all move on the second beat, which is why the group sounds so unlike the names around it. Sherita takes the Sher- opening that also gave Sheree, Sherilyn and Sherita's near neighbor Sharita, and the two spellings of that first vowel, e and a, have been alternating ever since.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no inherited meaning. The name was assembled in twentieth-century America from a front syllable that is not a word and an ending borrowed from Spanish, and neither part carries a sense of its own.
Pronouncing Sherita
shuh-REE-tuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is reduced almost to nothing, which is why Sherita and Sharita are hard to tell apart in speech.
Nicknames for Sherita
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
- 1949
- Most girls named
- 1981237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #708reached in 1981
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%5 in 2022, 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.
Sheritas among us
people named Sherita 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
Sherita 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 pattern gives it a lift that most English names of the same length do not have.
- Rita is a ready short form with a history of its own.
- Every sound in it is ordinary and the spelling follows the sound closely.
- Sherita and Sharita are said almost identically, so the first vowel will always be asked about.
- There is no meaning and no older tradition to pass on.
- It reads clearly as a name of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sheritas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Sherita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherita in 2025?
- Sherita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherita with classmates?
- Sherita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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