Entry № 9561 · English origin

Sheryl Sheryl — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHER-il /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Beloved (Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In; Sheryl Crow)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "beloved (sheryl sandberg, lean in; sheryl crow)".

Sheryl is a 20th-century American variant of Cheryl — itself a blend of Cherie + Beryl.

Subject of countless tech industry profiles.

Beloved. Sandberg's Lean In sold 4 million; Sheryl Crow's nine Grammys; Sheryl Swoopes was the WNBA's first signed player.

The name in its native script.

Sheryl
Transliteration
Sheryl
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɛr.əl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sheryl stands.

Sheryl does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sheryls before her.

Real people
Sheryl Sandberg
Former Meta COO.
born 1969
Sheryl Crow
American Grammy singer.
born 1962
Sheryl Swoopes
American WNBA pioneer.
born 1971
In fiction
Sheryl
Various American TV roles.

Names connected to Sheryl.

The number behind Sheryl.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheryl reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.