Sheri
Sheri was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,681 among girls’ names; 60,578 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 53,100 Americans named Sheri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 54 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sheri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sheri is “a female given name, variant of Sherry.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sheri?
#14,681 among girls’ names, 2025
Sheri fell from #11,699 in 2015 to #14,681 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
3,107 babies in 1963, the peak
Sheri peaked in 1963, when 3,107 babies were given it (3,094 girls, #136 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,681 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,512 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,379 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,031 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,850 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,285 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,719 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,572 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,132 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,699 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,807 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,520 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,412 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,616 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,363 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,300 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,767 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,745 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,097 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,442 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,522 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,764 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,061 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,925 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,381 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,288 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,003 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,148 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,750 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,792 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,549 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 113 | #1,430 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 143 | #1,208 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 180 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 187 | #946 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 257 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 308 | #624 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 385 | #530 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 470 | #457 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 517 | #412 | 0.31 |
| 1983 | 480 | #439 | 0.29 |
| 1982 | 515 | #425 | 0.30 |
| 1981 | 618 | #376 | 0.37 |
| 1980 | 708 | #342 | 0.43 |
| 1979 | 755 | #318 | 0.47 |
| 1978 | 852 | #271 | 0.56 |
| 1977 | 983 | #254 | 0.64 |
| 1976 | 1,094 | #221 | 0.75 |
| 1975 | 1,151 | #214 | 0.79 |
| 1974 | 1,428 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 1,667 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1972 | 1,923 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1971 | 2,144 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 1970 | 2,400 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 2,601 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1968 | 2,718 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 1967 | 2,959 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 1966 | 2,720 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 2,629 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 2,920 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 1963 | 3,094 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1962 | 2,988 | #145 | 1.5 |
| 1961 | 2,488 | #168 | 1.2 |
| 1960 | 2,210 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 1959 | 1,846 | #192 | 0.91 |
| 1958 | 1,600 | #203 | 0.80 |
| 1957 | 1,588 | #210 | 0.78 |
| 1956 | 1,716 | #195 | 0.85 |
| 1955 | 1,144 | #242 | 0.59 |
| 1954 | 935 | #277 | 0.48 |
| 1953 | 713 | #309 | 0.38 |
| 1952 | 535 | #356 | 0.29 |
| 1951 | 483 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1950 | 413 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1949 | 341 | #428 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 364 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1947 | 348 | #439 | 0.20 |
| 1946 | 294 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1945 | 168 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1944 | 157 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 154 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 105 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 68 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 43 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,289 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,136 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheri has been given almost only to girls: 114 boys in 92 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sheri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheri, and how old are they?
53,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 60,578 Americans ever recorded as Sheri. The median Sheri alive today is 60 years old; half are between 54 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 52,459 people named Sheri (52,414 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55,243 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 | 401 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 325 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 102 |
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 Sheri born?
The states with the most babies named Sheri are California, Texas and Illinois, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,278 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 3,770 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 3,539 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 3,199 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 3,093 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 3,031 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,581 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,841 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 1,636 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 1,537 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Sheri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sheri is most over-represented in Utah: since 1928 it was given 2.0 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 Sheri 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 431,461 babies since 1880, Sheri is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 46 babies (13%), again the third 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 Sheri
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 Sheri and names like it
- Compare Sheri and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSheri peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheri since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Sheri.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sheri alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.