Sheron
3,768 recorded births · active 1934–2017
Compare Sheron →Living-age distribution
The median living Sheron is 64. If you meet a Sheron, there's about a 70% chance they're between 44 and 79 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Sheron: 1945. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
12% male, 88.1% female.
Among males: median age 42 (27–53). Among females: median age 67 (49–80).
Rarity
Sheron ranks #5,080 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Sherons are 0.9x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Sheron's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Sheron's modeled peak was #1,252 in 1946 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Sheron hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2017 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Sheron isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Sheron enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.