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Girl · English (modern coinage)
Sheryl
Say it: SHAIR-ul
Meaning
A spelling of Cheryl, a 20th-century coinage probably from French chérie 'darling' with the ending -yl.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Most used in the US in the 1950s and 1960s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1950s
In the United States
- 78,939 babies given this name since 1921
- At its height in 1957, about 1 in 495 girls
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Cheryl, Sherill
Famous bearers
- Sheryl Crow, American singer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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