Sheryl is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sheryl in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sheryl in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sheryl by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sheryl ranks at #5,181. That means there are 5,180 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 75,842 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sheryl. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Sheryl may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Sheryl is apparently especially popular in Iowa. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 705 women in Iowa is called Sheryl. In total, that’s 2,878 women who feel addressed when the name Sheryl is shouted loudly across Iowa and who ensure that their name makes it to #187 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Sheryl as the answer a total of 75,842 times. This places Sheryl at #402 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Sheryl as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Sheryl is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sheryl and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sheryl, you can simply say:
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Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sheryl sounds like this:
