Sherryl
Sherryl is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Sherryl
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sherryl is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Sherryl
Sherryl first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1936, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1957: 207 births, good for #694 nationwide. About 40% of every Sherryl on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Sherryl last appeared in the published SSA data in 1995, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 4K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Sherryl
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Sherryl. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Sherryl
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About the name Sherryl
Sherryl is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1936 and has accumulated 4K births in the dataset. Sherryl's peak popularity came in 1957 when it ranked #694. Use the chart and map above to compare Sherryl'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.