Sherley
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sherley is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Shirley.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 149K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 38K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- EnglishShirley(inferred from the name graph)via Shirley
- Old Englishscīr(inferred from the name graph)via Shirley
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Shirley.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherley 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Sherley | 11 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Sherley | 30 |
| US United States | 2,234 | 1 in 149K | 2.2K | Sherley | 231 |
| FR France | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 685 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Sherley | 13 |
| PE Peru | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Sherley | 17 |
| BE Belgium | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 6 | Sherley | 23 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 8 | — | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Sherley | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- J. Swagar Sherleyb. 1871USAmerican politician (1871-1941)
- Glen Sherleyb. 1936USAmerican musician (1936–1978)
- Greg SherleyNZNew Zealand conservation scientist
- James SherleyUSAmerican biological engineer
- James L. Sherleybotanist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 666 | #36,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 593 | #35,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Sherley mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Shirley. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Is Sherley a male or female name?
- Sherley is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sherley?
- In the etymology graph, Shirley and Shirlee are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sherley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Sherley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherley.
- How common is the name Sherley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,234 people named Sherley in 2020, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherleyThe 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, “Sherley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.