Meaning not yet researched.
Cheri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #225 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #225 in 1967; #13,555 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cheri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,555 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #225.
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Cheri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #225 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 1,410 (1960).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Cheri, making it the 13,555th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,106 places from #10,449 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Cheri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #225, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,410, in 1960. For comparison, it was #8,561 in 2015 and #330 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cheri in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 7 babies. In all, 36,080 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 11,942 babies named Cheri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 52 US girls were named Cheri; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sheri (60,578 babies since 1880), Cherie (29,995 babies since 1880), Sherilyn (3,930 babies since 1880) and Cherry (11,716 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chery, Khyri and Cheria are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chery (567), Khyri (472), Cheria (199), Cherye (76), Khiri (17), Cherea (17), Kheri (6), Cheriah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cheri in the open dataset we use.
Cheri is listed as a nickname for Sheryl.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,555 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,449 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,416 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,846 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,723 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,763 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,124 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,561 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,103 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,212 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,866 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,560 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,357 | — | — |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,539 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,629 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,884 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,957 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,217 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,472 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,291 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,769 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,121 | — | — |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,642 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1992 | 101 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1991 | 120 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1990 | 138 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1989 | 181 | #961 | — | — |
| 1988 | 200 | #880 | — | — |
| 1987 | 222 | #791 | — | — |
| 1986 | 297 | #625 | — | — |
| 1985 | 292 | #638 | — | — |
| 1984 | 335 | #557 | — | — |
| 1983 | 309 | #579 | — | — |
| 1982 | 359 | #540 | — | — |
| 1981 | 395 | #506 | — | — |
| 1980 | 444 | #476 | — | — |
| 1979 | 454 | #450 | — | — |
| 1978 | 496 | #411 | — | — |
| 1977 | 499 | #410 | — | — |
| 1976 | 580 | #363 | — | — |
| 1975 | 733 | #310 | — | — |
| 1974 | 807 | #297 | — | — |
| 1973 | 936 | #266 | — | — |
| 1972 | 995 | #265 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,084 | #265 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,179 | #260 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,148 | #255 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,232 | #235 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,305 | #225 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,078 | #257 | — | — |
| 1965 | 876 | #304 | 6 | #3,593 |
| 1964 | 1,003 | #289 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,167 | #257 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,397 | #229 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,314 | #239 | 6 | #3,699 |
| 1960 | 1,410 | #227 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,336 | #237 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,203 | #249 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,112 | #257 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,047 | #262 | — | — |
| 1955 | 933 | #282 | — | — |
| 1954 | 810 | #299 | — | — |
| 1953 | 820 | #291 | — | — |
| 1952 | 686 | #308 | — | — |
| 1951 | 596 | #326 | — | — |
| 1950 | 544 | #330 | — | — |
| 1949 | 516 | #340 | — | — |
| 1948 | 546 | #333 | — | — |
| 1947 | 731 | #287 | — | — |
| 1946 | 591 | #304 | — | — |
| 1945 | 219 | #491 | — | — |
| 1944 | 187 | #531 | — | — |
| 1943 | 117 | #710 | — | — |
| 1942 | 83 | #835 | — | — |
| 1941 | 55 | #987 | — | — |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,091 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).