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Scherrie vs Schyler

American parents have registered 1,374 Schylers since 1880, against 326 Scherries. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Scherrie against Schyler, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Scherrie Schyler

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Schyler for 36 years and Scherrie for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Scherrie Schyler
Total US births 3261,374
Most in one year 2998
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2801,300
Median age today 5129
Peak year 19771992
Best rank 2,780th girls1,778th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19401977
Girls / boys 326 / 0602 / 772

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Scherries alive today are over 51; half the Schylers are over 29. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Scherrie and Schyler.