Sherwood
Sherwood is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1938120 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1938
- Since 1891
- 5,670people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,670 boys have been named Sherwood in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 120 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 120 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sherwood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 620 | |
| 1920s | 1,010 | |
| 1930s | 946 | |
| 1940s | 986 | |
| 1950s | 859 | |
| 1960s | 464 | |
| 1970s | 286 | |
| 1980s | 157 | |
| 1990s | 120 | |
| 2000s | 56 | |
| 2010s | 58 | |
| 2020s | 36 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Sherwood was the 534th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1938 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Sherwood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lenwoodpeak 1949
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Gordonpeak 1952
- Harrellpeak 1947
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Hershellpeak 1920
- Melvinpeak 1928
- Reynoldpeak 1922
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.