Names / Boy names
Sherlock
Current rank
—
outside the top 1,000
All-time peak
#3,262
in 1949
First recorded
1930
in U.S. data
Children named
78
since 1930
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #3,262 in 1949 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(SHER-lok) — For investigative sniffers and drawer-openers. It makes its debut in American naming data in 1930. It currently sits off the most-common lists, a quieter choice. Only about 78 children have carried it, making it genuinely rare.