Girls' name · peaked in 1962

Sherrie name popularity since 1925

35,141 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Sherrie. Half of them were born in 1962 or earlier, so the typical Sherrie is about 64 years old in 2026. Sherrie peaked in 1962 as the #215 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 35,141; Named Sherrie, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1962; #215 for girls that year
Typical age: About 64; Median birth year 1962
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #16,911 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 35,130 girls · 11 boys
Most popular in: Utah; 3.68× its national share

Peak year is the year Sherrie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Sherrie births per year, 1925–2025

1962 was the biggest year for Sherrie both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1951 and 1956, Sherrie became 2.2× more common, from 1 in 3,320 baby girls to 1 in 1,500.
Steepest fall: Between 1973 and 1978, its share of baby girls fell by 52%, from 1 in 2,260 to 1 in 4,700.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Sherrie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Sherrie.

Decade by decade

Babies named Sherrie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	44	0	–
1930s	404	0	#1,180
1940s	3,389	0	#396
1950s	10,382	6	#238
1960s	12,530	5	#248
1970s	5,578	0	#406
1980s	2,052	0	#814
1990s	489	0	#3,766
2000s	151	0	#14,287
2010s	79	0	#10,758
2020–25	32	0	#16,911

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

55.5% of babies named Sherrie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Sherrie is most popular

The index compares Sherrie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Sherrie.

State	Index	Babies
Utah	3.68×	1,025
Tennessee	1.84×	1,267
Oklahoma	1.69×	723
Oregon	1.62×	496
Georgia	1.44×	1,307

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Sherrie and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Sherrie (this page)	35,130	1962
Sherry	229,650	1963
Sherri	83,661	1963
Sheri	60,464	1967
Sheree	13,554	1956
Sherie	5,010	1967
Sherree	1,555	1957

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Sherrie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Sherrie.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Sherrie (1962).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data