Sherill
Sherill Shavette Baker is a current American collegiate women's basketball assistant coach with the George Washington Revolutionaries and former professional women's basketball player in the WNBA, most recently with the Detroit Shock.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Sherill
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sherill Shavette Baker is a current American collegiate women's basketball assistant coach with the George Washington Revolutionaries and former professional women's basketball player in the WNBA, most recently with the Detroit Shock.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Sherill
As a girl name
Sherill first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1934, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1954: 48 births, good for #1,444 nationwide. About 31% of every Sherill on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Sherill last appeared in the published SSA data in 1994, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Sherill first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1931, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1940: 10 births, good for #2,322 nationwide. About 43% of every Sherill on record arrived during the 1940s, its defining decade. Sherill last appeared in the published SSA data in 1957, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 61 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Sherill
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Names that sound like Sherill
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About the name Sherill
Sherill is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1934 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Sherill's peak popularity came in 1954 when it ranked #1,444. Use the chart and map above to compare Sherill's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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