Sherry
Sherry was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,531 among girls’ names; 230,913 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 187,000 Americans named Sherry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 57 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sherry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sherry mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sherry is “a female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sherry?
#5,531 among girls’ names, 2025
Sherry fell from #2,379 in 2015 to #5,531 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 14.3 per million.
9,261 babies in 1962, the peak
Sherry peaked in 1962, when 9,261 babies were given it (9,223 girls, #48 among girls’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,531 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,206 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,922 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,951 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,817 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,596 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,545 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,431 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,655 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,134 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,379 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,774 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,759 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,544 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,610 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,779 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,482 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,130 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,145 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,103 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,832 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,699 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,507 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,616 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,468 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,512 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 142 | #1,276 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 166 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,129 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 203 | #930 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 244 | #828 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 313 | #692 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 305 | #708 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 353 | #634 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 399 | #581 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 449 | #520 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 548 | #423 | 0.31 |
| 1987 | 567 | #401 | 0.33 |
| 1986 | 672 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 822 | #299 | 0.48 |
| 1984 | 879 | #273 | 0.52 |
| 1983 | 929 | #256 | 0.56 |
| 1982 | 1,047 | #242 | 0.62 |
| 1981 | 1,266 | #208 | 0.76 |
| 1980 | 1,404 | #192 | 0.85 |
| 1979 | 1,591 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 1,825 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 1977 | 2,071 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 2,359 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1975 | 3,044 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 1974 | 3,436 | #89 | 2.3 |
| 1973 | 3,952 | #76 | 2.7 |
| 1972 | 4,447 | #70 | 2.9 |
| 1971 | 5,562 | #60 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5,917 | #60 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6,139 | #55 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6,435 | #52 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 7,130 | #51 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 6,983 | #53 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7,381 | #56 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 8,496 | #50 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 9,065 | #49 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 9,223 | #48 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 8,361 | #53 | 4.1 |
| 1960 | 8,314 | #54 | 4.1 |
| 1959 | 7,341 | #58 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 6,802 | #67 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 7,804 | #55 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 7,898 | #54 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 7,769 | #56 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 7,120 | #62 | 3.7 |
| 1953 | 5,935 | #70 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5,956 | #68 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5,889 | #70 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5,808 | #62 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5,295 | #68 | 3.1 |
| 1948 | 5,717 | #61 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5,579 | #67 | 3.1 |
| 1946 | 4,518 | #73 | 2.9 |
| 1945 | 2,676 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 1944 | 2,733 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 1943 | 2,314 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 1942 | 1,818 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1941 | 1,252 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1940 | 857 | #207 | 0.75 |
| 1939 | 739 | #226 | 0.67 |
| 1938 | 674 | #246 | 0.61 |
| 1937 | 648 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1936 | 568 | #257 | 0.55 |
| 1935 | 436 | #288 | 0.42 |
| 1934 | 191 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1933 | 126 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 125 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 98 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 91 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 74 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 75 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 81 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 64 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 67 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,493 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sherry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sherry has been given almost only to girls: 976 boys in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sherry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sherry, and how old are they?
187,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 230,913 Americans ever recorded as Sherry. The median Sherry alive today is 64 years old; half are between 57 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 187,596 people named Sherry (187,269 women and girls, 327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200,318 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7,180 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,920 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 577 |
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 Sherry born?
The states with the most babies named Sherry are Texas, California and Ohio, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16,529 | #2,882 | 1.1× |
| California | 15,379 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 12,675 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11,147 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 10,835 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 10,765 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 9,523 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 9,412 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 9,254 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 7,817 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Sherry is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sherry is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Sherry 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 466,692 babies since 1880, Sherry is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 52 babies (44%), again the 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 Sherry
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 Sherry and names like it
- Compare Sherry and SherriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSherry peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sherry since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sherry.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sherry alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.