Sheridan
Sheridan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 780th, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2001305 births
- Best rank
- #780in 2001
- Since 1928
- 8,340people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,580 girls have been named Sheridan in the United States since 1928, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 305 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Sheridan is used for both sexes: 33% of its bearers are boys (2,760), most of them born around 1941.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sheridan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1930s | 73 | |
| 1940s | 469 | |
| 1950s | 297 | |
| 1960s | 267 | |
| 1970s | 258 | |
| 1980s | 359 | |
| 1990s | 1,625 | |
| 2000s | 1,757 | |
| 2010s | 374 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Sheridan was the 780th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Sheridan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cydneypeak 1998
- Haleepeak 2000
- Hanahpeak 2001
- Dyamondpeak 2000
- Kyrstenpeak 1992
- Alexispeak 1998
- Tyanapeak 2000
- Gabrielepeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.