Cherie
Cherie was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,468 among girls’ names; 29,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,000 Americans named Cherie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 50 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cherie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cherie is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Variant of Cheri.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cherie?
#8,468 among girls’ names, 2025
Cherie fell from #6,285 in 2015 to #8,468 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 7.5 per million.
1,002 babies in 1970, the peak
Cherie peaked in 1970, when 1,002 girls were given it, #291 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,468 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,756 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,562 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,332 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,499 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,474 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,858 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,448 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,007 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,285 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,140 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,467 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,657 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,189 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,015 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,966 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,784 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,147 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,334 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,319 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,514 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,830 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,345 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,876 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,998 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,742 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,465 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,564 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,126 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,158 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,543 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,271 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 163 | #1,098 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 162 | #1,103 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 226 | #866 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 218 | #851 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 287 | #672 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 327 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 340 | #573 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 370 | #537 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 358 | #537 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 335 | #549 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 392 | #513 | 0.23 |
| 1981 | 383 | #515 | 0.23 |
| 1980 | 467 | #456 | 0.28 |
| 1979 | 467 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1978 | 424 | #463 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 465 | #440 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 493 | #411 | 0.34 |
| 1975 | 648 | #340 | 0.44 |
| 1974 | 659 | #336 | 0.45 |
| 1973 | 760 | #307 | 0.52 |
| 1972 | 823 | #298 | 0.54 |
| 1971 | 871 | #310 | 0.52 |
| 1970 | 1,002 | #291 | 0.57 |
| 1969 | 990 | #284 | 0.59 |
| 1968 | 892 | #292 | 0.54 |
| 1967 | 958 | #274 | 0.58 |
| 1966 | 871 | #288 | 0.51 |
| 1965 | 826 | #313 | 0.47 |
| 1964 | 817 | #334 | 0.43 |
| 1963 | 898 | #309 | 0.47 |
| 1962 | 834 | #324 | 0.42 |
| 1961 | 627 | #384 | 0.31 |
| 1960 | 655 | #374 | 0.32 |
| 1959 | 648 | #377 | 0.32 |
| 1958 | 690 | #348 | 0.34 |
| 1957 | 778 | #328 | 0.38 |
| 1956 | 924 | #293 | 0.46 |
| 1955 | 628 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1954 | 495 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1953 | 477 | #390 | 0.25 |
| 1952 | 453 | #385 | 0.24 |
| 1951 | 425 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1950 | 412 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1949 | 404 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1948 | 451 | #371 | 0.27 |
| 1947 | 433 | #383 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 379 | #391 | 0.24 |
| 1945 | 249 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1944 | 245 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 202 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 167 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 132 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 91 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 89 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 86 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 75 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 109 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 88 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 74 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 82 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 67 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 72 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 105 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 68 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 72 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 73 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,691 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,606 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,612 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,337 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherie has been given almost only to girls: 26 boys in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cherie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherie, and how old are they?
25,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 29,995 Americans ever recorded as Cherie. The median Cherie alive today is 58 years old; half are between 50 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 25,040 people named Cherie (25,018 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 760 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,070 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 488 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 181 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cherie born?
The states with the most babies named Cherie are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,967 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,667 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 1,618 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 1,615 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 1,510 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,404 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,359 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 1,129 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Florida | 899 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 875 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Cherie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cherie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cherie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 90,218 babies since 1880, Cherie is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 60 babies (20%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cherie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cherie and names like it
- Compare Cherie and CheriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCherie peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherie since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Cherie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Cherie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cherie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.