How Many People Are Named Cherryl?
people named Cherryl are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 250,025 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,757 babies named Cherryl in Social Security records from 1938 to 1993, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
105 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CHERYL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cherryl in English. Counting Cherryl and these spellings together, about 431,015 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cherryl in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cherryl alive today is about 68 years old, and 83% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 62 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cherryl first appears in the records in 1938 and was given most often in 1947, to 105 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1993.
Babies given the name each year, 1938 to 1993
🏆 Rank History
Cherryl has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #810, in 1946.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #810 (1946) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,230 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cherryl alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cherryl were born in California than in any other state: about 126 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cherryl was given 4.6 times as often in California and 3 times in Michigan.
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