Sheryl

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sheryl is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Cheryl, from French cher "dear".

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore1 in 588◐
  • CACanada1 in 588
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 601

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈373K ●

across 4 countries

#386 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
541 ●

6.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 894 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

CherylLatin · English●5.1M records
שרילHebrew · Hebrew●2.1K records
เชอรีลThai · Thai●5 records
চেরিলBengali · Bangla●1 records

Locally spelled Cheryl in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 19 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Variant of Cheryl, from French cher "dear".

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sheryl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#90372,0844.9M rec.1 in 894372KCheryl541
GB United Kingdom#97343,954317K rec.—3Cheryl233
AU Australia#121175,157133K rec.—101Cheryl217
PH Philippines#90172,339146K rec.—53KSheryl133
CA Canada#86141,411138K rec.—1Cheryl220
IT Italy#27432,04332K rec.—4Cheryl54
SG Singapore#1518,30717K rec.——Cheryl141
DE Germany#71517,43817K rec.—1Cheryl92
RU Russia—14,21215K rec.——Cheryl38
NZ New Zealand#4513,89413K rec.—10Cheryl95
EG Egypt#46810,80610K rec.——Cheryl25
IE Ireland#12110,79113K rec.——Cheryl69

Roughly 372K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 894). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English986K83%
  • 48K4%
  • Spanish44K4%
  • Swahili10K1%
  • French8.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English986,09483%
47,6514%
Spanish44,4804%
Swahili10,4531%
French8,1331%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sheryl is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name12K records spelled Sheryl4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Kenya, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Shèryl

  • Polish given name4.8K records spelled Sheryl40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Cheryl, Sherrill, Шерил, Sheril, Черіл

  • Hungarian given name1.7K records spelled Sheryl4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Shérýl

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sheryl is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Cheryl or Shirley.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Diminutif anglo-saxon de Charlotte, d’origine germanique (< Karl), « viril ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Anglais, variante de Cheryl; origine discutée, souvent liée à Cherie/Charlotte.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Amada

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • English: variant of CHERYL . Variants: Sherill, Sherrill .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K194019601980200020204.1K · 1957

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Sheryl in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1921–2025
Yearrecords
19217
19236
19246
19256
19267
192710
192810
19299
19305
193112
19325
193324
193431
193532
193657
193777
1938154
1939135
1940155
1941195
1942324
1943588
1944950
19451,055
19461,632
19471,835
19482,008
19491,971
19502,110
19511,934
19522,242
19532,400
19542,930
19553,412
19563,891
19574,133
19583,792
19593,540
19603,055
19613,125
19623,240
19633,105
19642,957
19652,535
19662,211
19672,241
19681,885
19691,704
19701,471
19711,192
1972953
1973795
1974675
1975575
1976452
1977386
1978445
1979412
1980357
1981319
1982300
1983218
1984220
1985198
1986198
1987175
1988153
1989135
1990118
1991109
199283
199389
199473
199568
199658
199753
199846
199952
200045
200135
200231
200354
200447
200526
200628
200723
200845
200927
201032
201124
201219
201327
201423
201517
201630
201723
201821
201927
202012
202122
202214
202316
202424
202513

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1921–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1950196019701980Sheryl Lee Ralph, b. 1956Jacky Rosen, b. 1957Sheryl WuDunn, b. 1959Sheryl Crow, b. 1962Sheryl Underwood, b. 1963Sheryl Gascoigne, b. 1965Sheryl Bailey, b. 1966Sheryl Lee, b. 1967Sheryl Sandberg, b. 1969Sheryl Swoopes, b. 1971

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 59 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Sheryl
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202070K#729
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202253K#129
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—134#6,341
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—121#4,937
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—110#2,040
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020102#729
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—99#15,930
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—92#7,508
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—90#8,514
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)195669#99
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—56#7,910
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202550#544

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 499 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sheryl?
We estimate roughly 373 thousand people bear Sheryl (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Sheryl have the most bearers?
We estimate about 372 thousand people bear Sheryl in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cheryl.
How common is Sheryl compared with other names?
In the United States, Sheryl is the 90th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Sheryl a male or female name?
Sheryl is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Sheryl mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Cheryl, from French cher "dear".
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sheryl” — the 90th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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