# Sherry (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sherry/  
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 | Cheri, Sheri, Sherri, Shari |
| US babies named this | 230,913 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 976 / 229,937 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 100, 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 | 69 | 2,611 |
| 2012 | 72 | 2,544 |
| 2013 | 63 | 2,760 |
| 2014 | 63 | 2,776 |
| 2015 | 78 | 2,379 |
| 2016 | 53 | 3,134 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,655 |
| 2018 | 46 | 3,432 |
| 2019 | 44 | 3,546 |
| 2020 | 42 | 3,596 |
| 2021 | 28 | 4,821 |
| 2022 | 38 | 3,953 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,927 |
| 2024 | 16 | 7,210 |
| 2025 | 23 | 5,532 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 13 | 3,057 |
| 1976 | 6 | 5,498 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4,522 |
| 1978 | 13 | 3,198 |
| 1979 | 11 | 3,779 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,433 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,120 |
| 1982 | 5 | 7,218 |
| 1983 | 9 | 4,441 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6,211 |
| 1985 | 8 | 5,078 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,607 |
| 1987 | 7 | 6,003 |
| 1989 | 5 | 9,031 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,418 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2001 | 8 | 2,023 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2003 | 5 | 3,099 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2,530 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |
| 2006 | 10 | 2,137 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Sherry

- Sherry Stringfield, American actress
- Sherry Turkle, American social scientist and psychologist
- Sherry Lansing, American film studio executive and actress
- Sherry Jackson, American actress
- Sherry Ortner, American anthropologist
- Sherry Hormann, American-German film director and screen writer
- Sherry Cola, Chinese-American actress
- Sherry Miller, Canadian actress
- Sherry Britton, American burlesque performer (1918-2008)

## 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.