How Many People Are Named Cherie?

25,267

people named Cherie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 13,526 people in the US has this name

Based on 29,995 babies named Cherie in Social Security records from 1910 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,415

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#756

See the top 100

Peak Year

1970

1,002 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SHER-ee, shΙ™-REE
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Derived from French chΓ©rie meaning "darling". In America, Cherie came into use shortly after the variant Sherry, and has not been as common.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Cherie in English. Counting Cherie and these spellings together, about 454,946 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Cherie (99.9%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Cherie alive today is about 57 years old, and 55% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 49 and 66 in 2025.

Under 30 732
2.9%
30 to 59 13,784
54.6%
60 and over 10,751
42.5%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Cherie first appears in the records in 1910 and was given most often in 1970, to 1,002 babies. In 2025, 12 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1910 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Cherie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #274, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #8,468.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,468
Best rank#274 (1967)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#313 in the 1960s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Cherie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Cherie were born in California than in any other state: about 3,355 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cherie was given 2.8 times as often in Utah, 2.2 times in Washington and 2.1 times in Hawaii.

California 3,355
Michigan 1,394
New York 1,366
Ohio 1,337
Illinois 1,262
Pennsylvania 1,204
Texas 1,171
Louisiana 1,024
Florida 806
Washington 719
Missouri 633
Wisconsin 515
New Jersey 488
Virginia 476
Indiana 466
Massachusetts 454
Utah 409
Colorado 392
Georgia 380
Maryland 373
Minnesota 371
North Carolina 334
Oregon 332
Iowa 328
Tennessee 324
Kansas 282
Connecticut 264
Oklahoma 228
Kentucky 224
Arizona 223
Alabama 171
Hawaii 167
Nebraska 133
Arkansas 129
South Carolina 107
District of Columbia 99
Idaho 98
Montana 73
Mississippi 72
West Virginia 68
North Dakota 46
Rhode Island 37
Nevada 36
South Dakota 36
New Mexico 36
Maine 34
Delaware 5
Vermont 4
Wyoming 4

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