How Many People Are Named Sheri?

53,450

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

About 1 in 6,394 people in the US has this name

Based on 60,578 babies named Sheri in Social Security records from 1928 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#886

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#447

See the top 100

Peak Year

1963

3,107 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SHER-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of SHERRY.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Sheri (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Sheri alive today is about 58 years old, and 53% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 53 and 64 in 2025.

Under 30 472
0.9%
30 to 59 28,515
53.3%
60 and over 24,463
45.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Sheri first appears in the records in 1928 and was given most often in 1963, to 3,107 babies. In 2025, 6 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1928 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Sheri has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #115, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #14,680.

Girls
Rank in 2025#14,680
Best rank#115 (1967)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#142 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Sheri were born in California than in any other state: about 7,230 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sheri was given 2.4 times as often in Utah, 2 times in Idaho and 1.8 times in Montana.

California 7,230
Texas 3,303
Illinois 3,108
Ohio 2,835
Michigan 2,730
New York 2,681
Pennsylvania 2,314
Florida 1,662
Washington 1,417
Missouri 1,361
Wisconsin 1,329
Indiana 1,325
Minnesota 1,169
Iowa 1,096
New Jersey 1,083
Massachusetts 957
Virginia 905
Oklahoma 893
Kansas 844
Georgia 811
Utah 807
Colorado 807
Louisiana 805
Oregon 800
North Carolina 724
Nebraska 676
Tennessee 658
Arizona 657
Maryland 646
Kentucky 600
Connecticut 515
Alabama 462
West Virginia 378
South Carolina 358
Arkansas 358
Idaho 350
Hawaii 304
North Dakota 302
Mississippi 290
Montana 289
New Mexico 237
South Dakota 224
Rhode Island 198
District of Columbia 198
Maine 179
Nevada 161
New Hampshire 119
Wyoming 109
Delaware 64
Alaska 62
Vermont 30

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