Sherly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHER-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Sherly is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “bright clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Sherly mean?
English: spelling of Shirley, an English place-name surname
“bright clearing”
Shirley became a girls' name after Charlotte Bronte's 1849 novel Shirley.
Is Sherly a girl's or a boy's name?
Sherly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sherly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Sherly, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 50 girls. It first appears in the records in 1952.
2025 had fewer girls named Sherly than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Sherly in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sherly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,315 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,191 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,815 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,030 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,377 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,020 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,033 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,766 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,822 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,166 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,946 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,852 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,775 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,189 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,522 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,245 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,455 |
| 1968 | 12 | #3,999 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,339 |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,401 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,095 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,457 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,781 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,238 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,695 |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,924 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,488 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,836 |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,653 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,954 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,561 |
Names like Sherly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ivy Lily Riley Sunny Scarlett Serenity Bailey Sydney Marley Hadley Shelby Harley
Names related to Sherly
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sherly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sherly, updated 20 October 2026.