Cherri
Cherri was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 4,146 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,550 Americans named Cherri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cherri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cherri is “a female given name from English, variant of Cherry.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cherri?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,969, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
197 babies in 1961, the peak
Cherri peaked in 1961, when 197 girls were given it, #739 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,969 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,228 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,886 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,201 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,339 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,298 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,003 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,598 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,160 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,750 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | #6,711 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,245 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,693 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,309 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,832 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,180 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,906 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,597 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,439 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,389 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,556 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,087 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,400 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,332 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,345 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,446 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,002 | 31.8 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,768 | 37.9 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,665 | 41.1 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,589 | 43.0 |
| 1975 | 86 | #1,293 | 59.0 |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,269 | 57.9 |
| 1973 | 88 | #1,212 | 60.3 |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,293 | 51.9 |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,119 | 63.1 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,108 | 60.6 |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,003 | 68.8 |
| 1968 | 121 | #940 | 73.8 |
| 1967 | 128 | #905 | 77.5 |
| 1966 | 128 | #887 | 75.6 |
| 1965 | 123 | #908 | 69.7 |
| 1964 | 139 | #881 | 73.4 |
| 1963 | 121 | #965 | 62.8 |
| 1962 | 151 | #860 | 76.8 |
| 1961 | 197 | #739 | 97.6 |
| 1960 | 188 | #743 | 93.0 |
| 1959 | 158 | #816 | 78.1 |
| 1958 | 169 | #771 | 84.0 |
| 1957 | 148 | #833 | 72.4 |
| 1956 | 136 | #851 | 67.7 |
| 1955 | 107 | #954 | 54.7 |
| 1954 | 110 | #915 | 56.6 |
| 1953 | 85 | #1,050 | 45.2 |
| 1952 | 85 | #1,017 | 45.8 |
| 1951 | 77 | #1,056 | 42.8 |
| 1950 | 51 | #1,285 | 29.8 |
| 1949 | 51 | #1,278 | 29.8 |
| 1948 | 73 | #1,031 | 43.0 |
| 1947 | 63 | #1,129 | 35.5 |
| 1946 | 51 | #1,209 | 32.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,999 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,435 | 24.1 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,547 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,436 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,033 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,467 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherri, and how old are they?
3,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 4,146 Americans ever recorded as Cherri. The median Cherri alive today is 61 years old; half are between 53 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 3,635 people named Cherri (3,635 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,730 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 392 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 53 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 Cherri born?
The states with the most babies named Cherri are California, Texas and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 341 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 258 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 147 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 143 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 116 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 68 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 53 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
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 Cherri 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, Cherri is the fifth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 60 babies recorded by SSA was a Cherri (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cherri
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 Cherri and names like it
- Compare Cherri and CheriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCherri peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherri since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Cherri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cherri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.