Quick answers about Sherwood
How many people are named Sherwood?
An estimated 1,956 living Americans are named Sherwood.
How rare is Sherwood?
Sherwood fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Sherwood?
The median age of a living American named Sherwood is approximately 65 years, with most bearers falling between 50 and 74 years old.
Is Sherwood still popular?
Not especially. Sherwood has been declining since its 1938 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Sherwood most common?
Sherwood has its strongest geographic signal in North Carolina, where it appears 5.7× more often than the national baseline.
1891Peak 19382025
Where it lives now
Sherwood is most concentrated in North Carolina — about 5.7× the national rate in the 1960s.
States where Sherwood is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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