Sherly
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Sherly by the numbers
Sherly was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 50 babies in 2008, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Sherly
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sherly. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sherlynbeloved; a form of Cheryl with -lyn suffix216 in the US (2017)
- Sherrybeloved; a form of Cherie64 in the US (2017)
- Shellyfrom the shell clearing; a form of Shelley34 in the US (2017)
- Sherleybright clearing; a variant of Shirley11 in the US (2017)
- Sheily20 in the US (2017)
- Shelbywillow farm or ledge farm864 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Sherly
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