Sherron
Feminine · “the plain”
Sherron is given to both — 2,947 girls and 526 boys since 1880. See Sherron as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Sherron doubles a consonant that neither the Hebrew nor the English doubles. The name it comes from has one r in every language that has ever written it; the second one here is pure English habit, added to keep a vowel short that was never in danger of being long.
How old is the name Sherron?
Sherron first appears in US birth records in 1933 — 92 years ago. The typical Sherron alive today was born around 1955, making them about 70 years old. About 2,300 people named Sherron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherron most popular?
Sherron peaked in 1943, reaching #710 nationally. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sharon to Sherron
The story of Sherron
This spelling sits between two families and belongs to both. Read one way it is the biblical place name with an English doubling and an e in the first syllable; read another it is the Sherry names — Sherry, Sherri, Sheryl — with a different ending. The record supports both: it enters at the same time as the Sherry group and peaks with the Sharon group, and it is given to boys as well as girls, which neither family would predict on its own. Names that sit between two productive patterns tend to behave like this, drawing from each without belonging to either.
Meaning
the plain
The Hebrew word names a stretch of level country. Neither the doubled consonant nor the changed first vowel affects the sense.
How the name formed
- Sharon
- Sherron
Related forms: Sharon
Pronouncing Sherron
SHAIR-un
Two syllables with the weight at the front. The doubled r changes nothing; some families use SHER-un, with the vowel of shed.
Nicknames for Sherron
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
- 1933
- Most girls named
- 1947140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #710reached in 1943
- Change vs 1999
- +37.5%11 in 2000, from 8
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.
Sherron in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sharon in Hebrew — related form
Sherrons among us
people named Sherron 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
Sherron 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
- It is read correctly at sight by anyone who has met any spelling of the name.
- It carries two short forms with quite different characters.
- The place behind it is real, mapped and still called by that name.
- Sharon is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- The doubled r adds no sound at all.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherrons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Sherron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherron in 2025?
- Sherron is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherron with classmates?
- Sherron will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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