Sherwin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for a quick runner, literally ‘shear-wind’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɝwɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sherwin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 44th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 6.1K
- USUnited States1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- 1 in 994 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for a quick runner, literally ‘shear-wind’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherwin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #244 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 56K | Sherwin | 131 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Sherwin | 47 |
| US United States | — | 3,798 | 1 in 88K | 3.6K | Sherwin | 321 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Sherwin | 44 |
| GY Guyana | #44 | 755 | 1 in 994 | 755 | Sherwin | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Sherwin | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sherwin | 56 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sherwin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, schere(n) to shear + wind-, the Ger. surname Schneidewin(d) ‘cut wind’ provides a semantic parallel. The Eng. surname is sometimes translated in medieval sources into the ANF form Tranchevent. Var.: Sherwen.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname transferred from the nickname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; a swift runner
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Irish, This is sometimes a variant of Sharvin or Sharvan, i.e. Ó Searbháin, a Co. Roscommon sept now almost extinct there ( searbh means bitter). Sherwin is also an English name well known in Ulster and Dublin. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sherwin Codyb. 1868USAmerican writer
- Sherwin Badgerb. 1901USfigure skater (1901–1972)
- Sherwin Wineb. 1928USAmerican rabbi (1928–2007)
- Sherwin B. Nulandb. 1930USAmerican surgeon (1930–2014)
- Sherwin Rosenb. 1938USAmerican economist (1938–2001)
- Sherwin Campbellb. 1970BBWest Indian cricketer
- Sherwin Gatchalianb. 1974PHFilipino politician
- Sherwin Vriesb. 1980NAathletics competitor
- Sherwin Gangab. 1982West Indian cricketer
- Sherwin Seedorfb. 1998SRSurinamese association football player (1998-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #4,771 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 755 | #103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 148 | #4,771 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 5 | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sherwin mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for a quick runner, literally ‘shear-wind’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Sherwin?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝwɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sherwin a male or female name?
- Sherwin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sherwin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Sherwin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherwin.
- Where is Sherwin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sherwin is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 994 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sherwin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,798 people named Sherwin in 2020, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Sherwin compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Sherwin is the 244th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherwinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sherwin” — the 244th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.