Sherrel
Feminine
Sherrel is given to both — 768 girls and 112 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Sherrel is recorded for boys and girls alike, and it belongs to a shape that was briefly very productive in American naming and then stopped being used at all. Naming fashions work on shapes as much as on names.
How old is the name Sherrel?
Sherrel first appears in US birth records in 1936 — 89 years ago. The typical Sherrel alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 600 people named Sherrel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherrel most popular?
Sherrel peaked in 1946, reaching #1647 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sherrel
For a stretch of the middle of the last century a particular shape was available to American parents: two syllables, an sh or ch at the front, a doubled r in the middle and an l ending, stressed either way. Cheryl, Sherrill, Sherrel, Darrell, Merrill and Ferrell all sit in it, some of them surnames, some of them coinages, and for a while they were read as belonging together whether or not they had anything to do with each other. Then the shape stopped being productive, as they all do, and no new names were built in it. The set is now a reliable dating device: a name in that shape can be placed within about twenty years by ear.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Cheryl, Sherrill and Sherry have all been offered as sources. Cheryl itself was a twentieth-century construction with no documented ancestry, so even the likeliest parent does not settle the question.
Pronouncing Sherrel
shuh-RELL
Two syllables with the weight on the second. SHER-ul, with the stress in front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Sherrel
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
- 1936
- Most girls named
- 195433 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1647reached in 1946
- Change vs 1993
- 0.0%6 in 1994, 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.
Sherrels among us
people named Sherrel 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
Sherrel 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
- Sher comes off the front as a short form and needs no explaining.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- It is short on paper and quick to write.
- Most children with this spelling are girls, but a real minority are boys; either may be taken for the other.
- Two stress patterns are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for most listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherrels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sherrel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherrel in 2025?
- Sherrel is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherrel with classmates?
- Sherrel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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