Sherryl
Feminine
Sherryl is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,104 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Sherryl belongs to a very small club. English has almost no names ending in -yl, and nearly all of them appeared within one lifetime: Beryl, Cheryl, Meryl, Daryl, Sheryl. Sherryl is the most heavily written of them, with the doubled r that English adds when it wants a short vowel to stay short.
How old is the name Sherryl?
Sherryl first appears in US birth records in 1936 — 89 years ago. The typical Sherryl alive today was born around 1955, making them about 70 years old. About 3,300 people named Sherryl are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherryl most popular?
Sherryl peaked in 1946, reaching #553 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Beryl to Sherryl
The story of Sherryl
Beryl was the pioneer: a gem word taken up as a girl's name, and the only member of the set with a real etymology behind it. Once it was established, the ending detached and went looking for new fronts to sit on, and English acquired Cheryl, Sheryl, Meryl and Daryl in quick succession, none of which existed before. Sherryl is the elaborated spelling of the s-fronted member. The whole family is a closed set of about half a dozen names, made in one country in one stretch of decades, and no new ones have joined it since.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no inherited meaning. The names in this group were assembled from parts rather than descended from words, and the -yl ending arrived not from Greek or Latin but from Beryl, the gemstone name that was fashionable when the group formed.
How the name formed
- Beryl
- Sheryl
- Sherryl
Pronouncing Sherryl
SHER-ril
Two syllables with the weight at the front. The ending is a soft, almost swallowed -ril, not a stressed -EEL.
Nicknames for Sherryl
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
- 1957207 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #553reached in 1946
- Change vs 1993
- +20.0%6 in 1995, 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.
Sherryls among us
people named Sherryl 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
Sherryl 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 said correctly on first hearing by anyone who has met Cheryl or Sheryl.
- Sherry works as a short form and stands alone as a name.
- The ending is rare enough that the name does not blur into the crowd of -ine and -ene names around it.
- Sheryl, Cheryl, Sherril and Sherryl are all in the record and are constantly mistaken for one another.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States, so on paper it does not settle which child is meant.
- The doubled r adds a letter without adding a sound, so the name will be misspelt more often than it is spelled right.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherryls are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Sherryl are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherryl in 2025?
- Sherryl is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherryl with classmates?
- Sherryl will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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