How Many People Are Named Sherilyn?

3,316

people named Sherilyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 103,071 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,930 babies named Sherilyn in Social Security records from 1933 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,827

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,717

See the top 100

Peak Year

1946

120 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of CHERILYN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Sherilyn in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Sherilyn alive today is about 55 years old, and 49% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 43 and 70 in 2025.

Under 30 317
9.6%
30 to 59 1,388
41.9%
60 and over 1,611
48.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Sherilyn first appears in the records in 1933 and was given most often in 1946, to 120 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1933 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Sherilyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #747, in 1946.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#747 (1946)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,054 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Sherilyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Sherilyn were born in California than in any other state: about 399 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sherilyn was given 11.3 times as often in Hawaii, 3.9 times in Texas and 3.8 times in California.

California 399
Texas 277
Illinois 86
New York 72
Hawaii 47
Michigan 42
Utah 33
Ohio 26
Iowa 20
Louisiana 18
Minnesota 13
Kansas 12
New Jersey 11
Florida 11
Missouri 9
Oklahoma 8
New Mexico 5
Georgia 5
Massachusetts 4
Colorado 4
Indiana 4
Pennsylvania 3
Nebraska 3
Washington 3

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