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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sherman

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#5,169

down −312 places

2025 births

19

down −2 births

All-time births

39,190

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1950
635 births
Best rank
#154
in 1894
First recorded
1880
#219 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1948
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1950635#260Peak
  2. 1951634#269
  3. 1952611#279
  4. 1953605#286
  5. 1958599#310

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #154 in 1894 · peak births 635 in 1950

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

39,190 boys · 203 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sherman has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.