Sheryl

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sheryl: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sheryl: Recorded since 1954, with a gap of 24 years, its highest recorded position is #50, and it was last ranked in 2014.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#50highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sheryl's record

Absent from every published list for 24 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2014

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1450
1998	#3142
1999	#3225
2000	#2416
2001	#3998
2002	#2301
2003	#4373
2004	#3725
2005	#3382
2006	#3116
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2010	#5707
2011	#4049
2013	#5742
2014	#5691

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 17 of the 19 years from 1996 to 2014.

In 1956: #50 among girls in New Zealand, #99 among girls in New South Wales, Australia.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1954–2014 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #50 among girls in New Zealand in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1954–1971
Highest recorded position: #50 among girls in New Zealand, in 1954 (recorded 1954–1971).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2014
Most recently recorded at #5691 among girls in England and Wales, in 2014.
England and Wales · Girls

Sheryl appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 17 ranked years and 85 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1954.

Sheryl across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sheryl's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#1450 (1997)	#5691 (2014)	17 of 19	85 (1996–2014)	12 (1997)
New Zealand · Girls	#50 (1954)	#50 (1954)	#77 (1971)	16 of 18	1,688 (1954–1971)	134 (1954)

Sheryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sheryl in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	41	9 of 10	5
2010s	14	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sheryl appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2014. Highest recorded position: #50 in New Zealand in 1956.

Sheryl's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#99	69	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New Zealand	female	#77	86	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	female	#71	92	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	female	#96	69	High	Verified
1966	New Zealand	female	#94	69	High	Verified
1965	New Zealand	female	#84	75	High	Verified
1964	New Zealand	female	#74	96	High	Verified
1963	New Zealand	female	#77	102	High	Verified
1962	New Zealand	female	#81	101	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	female	#70	113	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	female	#58	129	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	female	#59	120	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	female	#56	125	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	female	#52	129	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	female	#50	124	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	female	#50	124	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	female	#50	134	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1954 and 2014, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #50, first reached in 1954.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 13 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 134 births, registered in New Zealand in 1954.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 24 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1956, and 42 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Shereen · #409, 25y
Sheriff · #451, 17y
Shi · #894, 17y
Shia · #1534, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jarrod · #51, 37y
Cadhla · #53, 28y
Aoibhe · #55, 31y
Lauryn · #45, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Janelle · #50, 56y
Ørjan · #50, 69y
Piotr · #50, 71y
Sonia · #50, 64y

Sheryl was ranked #50 in New Zealand · Girls in 1954. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sheryl and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sheryl without appearing here.

Sheryl moved ahead of

Ollie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #3970.
Vicki Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #3197 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #3970.
Pauline Compare
In 1969 they stood at #96 and #71 in New Zealand · Girls; by 1970 that had become #71 and #98.
Lynette Compare
In 1969 they stood at #96 and #64 in New Zealand · Girls; by 1970 that had become #71 and #97.

Moved ahead of Sheryl

Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #2150.
Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2301 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1472.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3998 and #1107.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3382 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #1741.

Moved the opposite way to Sheryl

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 while Ada went from #2683 to #233.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 while Alma went from #2096 to #629.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 while Alyssa went from #783 to #188.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 while Amalie went from #2096 to #582.

Moved the same way as Sheryl

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 and Abigail from #21 to #46.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 and Aimee from #70 to #207.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 and Aisling from #440 to #1966.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2014 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheryl went from #1646 to #5691 and Alex from #161 to #1177.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2014. Highest recorded position: #50 in New Zealand in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sheryl

Sheryl at a glance

What stands out in Sheryl's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sheryl across 2 official records

Sheryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sheryl appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Sheryl at a glance

What stands out in Sheryl's record

Sheryl across 2 official records

Sheryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sheryl appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Sheryl

Sheryl and the names beside it

Sheryl moved ahead of

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