Sher
- Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Given to boys 58.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 177since 1980
Sher over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,666 | 16 | |
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #12,145 | 5 | |
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
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| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
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| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
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| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
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| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
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| 1989 | — | #4,811 | 10 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
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First appearance
1980
The first year at least five boys were named Sher! It came in at #6,250, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sher is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Sher in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Sher
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 1,651 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 1981 at #3,858 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 106,911
- Highest: 1 in 106,911 boys born in 2023 were named Sher (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,858 in 1981, was only 1 in 179,118 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 33.3% of all boys named Sher (59) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 59 | #3,858 (1981) | #5,209 |
| 1990s | 46 | #4,760 (1991) | #6,807 |
| 2000s | 10 | #10,349 (2000) | #10,911 |
| 2010s | 17 | #10,760 (2018) | #11,225 |
| 2020s | 45 | #5,666 (2023) | #8,988 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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