# Cherry (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cherry/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Cherri |
| US babies named this | 11,716 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 136 / 11,580 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 844, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 5,241 |
| 2012 | 39 | 3,937 |
| 2013 | 35 | 4,179 |
| 2014 | 46 | 3,445 |
| 2015 | 43 | 3,611 |
| 2016 | 40 | 3,798 |
| 2017 | 26 | 5,080 |
| 2018 | 29 | 4,686 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,795 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,471 |
| 2021 | 23 | 5,432 |
| 2022 | 24 | 5,347 |
| 2023 | 23 | 5,422 |
| 2024 | 29 | 4,691 |
| 2025 | 42 | 3,588 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 7 | 3,004 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,632 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,535 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,622 |
| 1945 | 8 | 2,595 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,601 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,805 |
| 1948 | 10 | 2,469 |
| 1949 | 10 | 2,478 |
| 1953 | 5 | 3,898 |
| 1954 | 6 | 3,506 |
| 1958 | 7 | 3,321 |
| 1960 | 6 | 3,724 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,338 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,438 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 583 |
| 2012 | 63 | 654 |
| 2013 | 44 | 854 |
| 2014 | 40 | 920 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,362 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,525 |
| 2017 | 29 | 1,184 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,490 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,218 |
| 2020 | 29 | 1,127 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,286 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,416 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,575 |
| 2024 | 27 | 1,230 |
| 2025 | 39 | 894 |

## People named Cherry

- Cherry Jones, American actress
- Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, American writer
- Cherry Ann Murray, American professor
- Cherry Vanilla, American singer-songwriter
- Cherry Kearton, English nature photographer and filmmaker (1871–1940)
- Cherry Vann, Archbishop of Wales

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.