Meaning not yet researched.
Cherie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #274 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #274 in 1967; #8,470 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cherie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,470 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #274.
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Cherie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #274 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 1,002 (1970).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Cherie, making it the 8,470th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,470 places from #7,000 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 girls named Cherie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #274, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,002, in 1970. For comparison, it was #6,287 in 2015 and #397 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cherie in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 29,995 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 8,379 babies named Cherie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 132 US girls were named Cherie; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sheri (60,578 babies since 1880), Cara (53,367 babies since 1880), Cheri (36,080 babies since 1880) and Sherie (5,010 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cherree and Cherrye 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cherree (53), Cherrye (18).
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 Cherie in the open dataset we use.
Cherie 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 | 12 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,000 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,761 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,567 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,337 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,504 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,452 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,010 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,287 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,144 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,471 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,660 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,192 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,017 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,151 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,337 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,324 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,835 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,003 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1992 | 163 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1991 | 162 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1990 | 226 | #868 | — | — |
| 1989 | 218 | #854 | — | — |
| 1988 | 287 | #672 | — | — |
| 1987 | 327 | #598 | — | — |
| 1986 | 340 | #573 | — | — |
| 1985 | 370 | #537 | — | — |
| 1984 | 358 | #537 | — | — |
| 1983 | 335 | #549 | 5 | #6,395 |
| 1982 | 392 | #513 | — | — |
| 1981 | 383 | #515 | — | — |
| 1980 | 467 | #456 | — | — |
| 1979 | 467 | #441 | — | — |
| 1978 | 424 | #463 | — | — |
| 1977 | 465 | #440 | — | — |
| 1976 | 493 | #411 | — | — |
| 1975 | 648 | #340 | 5 | #5,599 |
| 1974 | 659 | #336 | — | — |
| 1973 | 760 | #307 | — | — |
| 1972 | 823 | #298 | — | — |
| 1971 | 871 | #310 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,002 | #291 | — | — |
| 1969 | 990 | #284 | — | — |
| 1968 | 892 | #292 | — | — |
| 1967 | 958 | #274 | 5 | #4,052 |
| 1966 | 871 | #288 | — | — |
| 1965 | 826 | #313 | — | — |
| 1964 | 817 | #334 | 6 | #3,663 |
| 1963 | 898 | #309 | — | — |
| 1962 | 834 | #324 | — | — |
| 1961 | 627 | #384 | — | — |
| 1960 | 655 | #374 | — | — |
| 1959 | 648 | #377 | — | — |
| 1958 | 690 | #348 | — | — |
| 1957 | 778 | #328 | — | — |
| 1956 | 924 | #293 | 5 | #4,029 |
| 1955 | 628 | #341 | — | — |
| 1954 | 495 | #386 | — | — |
| 1953 | 477 | #391 | — | — |
| 1952 | 453 | #386 | — | — |
| 1951 | 425 | #397 | — | — |
| 1950 | 412 | #397 | — | — |
| 1949 | 404 | #396 | — | — |
| 1948 | 451 | #371 | — | — |
| 1947 | 433 | #383 | — | — |
| 1946 | 379 | #391 | — | — |
| 1945 | 249 | #452 | — | — |
| 1944 | 245 | #458 | — | — |
| 1943 | 202 | #531 | — | — |
| 1942 | 167 | #571 | — | — |
| 1941 | 132 | #614 | — | — |
| 1940 | 91 | #729 | — | — |
| 1939 | 89 | #724 | — | — |
| 1938 | 86 | #747 | — | — |
| 1937 | 75 | #789 | — | — |
| 1936 | 109 | #636 | — | — |
| 1935 | 88 | #716 | — | — |
| 1934 | 74 | #781 | — | — |
| 1933 | 82 | #723 | — | — |
| 1932 | 67 | #848 | — | — |
| 1931 | 72 | #798 | — | — |
| 1930 | 105 | #669 | — | — |
| 1929 | 68 | #861 | — | — |
| 1928 | 72 | #854 | — | — |
| 1927 | 73 | #864 | — | — |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,339 | — | — |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,473 | — | — |
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).