Sherri
Sherri was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,794 among girls’ names; 83,843 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 73,200 Americans named Sherri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 55 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sherri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sherri is “a female given name, variant of Sherry and Cheri.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sherri?
#8,794 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherri rose from #8,873 in 2015 to #8,794 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 7.5 per million.
5,472 babies in 1963, the peak
Sherri peaked in 1963, when 5,472 babies were given it (5,460 girls, #78 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,794 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,870 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,585 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,393 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,964 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,370 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,366 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,840 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,551 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,873 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,828 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,093 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,074 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,555 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,832 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,298 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,768 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,291 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,796 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,967 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,472 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,645 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,869 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,089 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,009 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,428 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,415 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,614 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,303 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,404 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 131 | #1,296 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 147 | #1,183 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 208 | #918 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 229 | #829 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 258 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 372 | #541 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 424 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 1985 | 494 | #442 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 567 | #387 | 0.34 |
| 1983 | 554 | #396 | 0.33 |
| 1982 | 622 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1981 | 646 | #363 | 0.39 |
| 1980 | 855 | #290 | 0.51 |
| 1979 | 852 | #286 | 0.53 |
| 1978 | 889 | #264 | 0.58 |
| 1977 | 1,080 | #231 | 0.70 |
| 1976 | 1,144 | #216 | 0.78 |
| 1975 | 1,272 | #196 | 0.87 |
| 1974 | 1,621 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1973 | 1,852 | #149 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 2,349 | #129 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 2,860 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 1970 | 3,165 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 1969 | 3,529 | #106 | 2.1 |
| 1968 | 3,641 | #95 | 2.2 |
| 1967 | 3,841 | #89 | 2.3 |
| 1966 | 3,747 | #92 | 2.2 |
| 1965 | 4,065 | #91 | 2.3 |
| 1964 | 4,871 | #86 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5,460 | #78 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5,363 | #82 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 3,807 | #121 | 1.9 |
| 1960 | 3,309 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1959 | 2,870 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 1958 | 2,472 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 2,247 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 2,033 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 1,598 | #198 | 0.82 |
| 1954 | 1,471 | #209 | 0.76 |
| 1953 | 1,583 | #196 | 0.84 |
| 1952 | 691 | #307 | 0.37 |
| 1951 | 670 | #301 | 0.37 |
| 1950 | 469 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1949 | 394 | #403 | 0.23 |
| 1948 | 407 | #392 | 0.24 |
| 1947 | 410 | #398 | 0.23 |
| 1946 | 325 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1945 | 211 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1944 | 208 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1943 | 141 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 115 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 76 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,716 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,970 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherri has been given almost only to girls: 176 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherri, and how old are they?
73,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 83,843 Americans ever recorded as Sherri. The median Sherri alive today is 61 years old; half are between 55 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 70,746 people named Sherri (70,703 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 76,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 449 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 153 |
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 Sherri born?
The states with the most babies named Sherri are California, Texas and Ohio, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6,896 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 5,262 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 5,080 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 4,536 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 4,032 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 3,668 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 3,382 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 3,209 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 2,612 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 2,531 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Sherri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherri is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1924 it was given 2.2 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 Sherri 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 432,119 babies since 1880, Sherri is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 46 babies (26%), 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 Sherri
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 Sherri and names like it
- Compare Sherri and SherryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSherri peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherri since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Sherri.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sherri alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.