How Many People Are Named Sherry?
people named Sherry are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,801 people in the US has this name
Based on 230,913 babies named Sherry in Social Security records from 1909 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
9,261 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Before the 20th century this was probably from the Irish surname Ó Searraigh meaning "descendant of Searrach" (a name meaning "foal" in Gaelic). Later it may have been reinforced by the French word chérie meaning "darling", or the English word sherry, a type of fortified wine named from the Spanish town of Jerez. This name came into popular use during the 1920s, inspired by other similar-sounding names and by Collette's novels 'Chéri' (1920, English translation 1929) and 'The Last of Chéri' (1926, English translation 1932), in which it is a masculine name.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sherry in English. Counting Sherry and these spellings together, about 454,946 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Sherry (99.7%) were girls. The share has stayed close to this since the 1920s: 92.3% of the babies were girls then and 100% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sherry alive today is about 62 years old, and 64% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 56 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sherry first appears in the records in 1909 and was given most often in 1962, to 9,261 babies. In 2025, 23 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1909 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sherry never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #48, in 1962, and it was in the top 100 in 31 years between 1944 and 1975. In 2025 it ranked #5,531.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,531 |
| Best rank | #48 (1962) |
| Years in the top 100 | 31 (1944 to 1975) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #55 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sherry alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sherry were born in Texas than in any other state: about 13,344 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sherry was given 2 times as often in Tennessee, 1.9 times in Oklahoma and 1.8 times in Arkansas.
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