Given name & surname
Sherill
“from the bright hill”
Sherill is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the bright hill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the bright hill.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sherill through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,080
- 61 boys · 1,019 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 48 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 48 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,119 as a first name in 2020; 176 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sherill’s family of names
Sherill has a related form in Sheryl. Sherill has a related form in Sherrill. Sherill has a related form in Sheryll.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sherill
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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