Meaning not yet researched.
Sherri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #78 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #78 in 1963; #8,796 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sherri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,796 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #78.
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Sherri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #78 in 1963 · most girls in one year: 5,460 (1963).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Sherri, making it the 8,796th most common girls’ name of the year, up 79 places from #8,875 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 12 girls named Sherri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #78, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,460. For comparison, it was #8,878 in 2015 and #370 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sherri in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 83,843 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 41,735 babies named Sherri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 116 US girls were named Sherri; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. 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 Sherrie (35,159 babies since 1880), Sherry (230,913 babies since 1880), Sheri (60,578 babies since 1880) and Sheree (13,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shiori and Shiri 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shiori (269), Shiri (225).
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 Sherri in the open dataset we use.
Sherri 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 | #8,796 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,923 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,590 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,398 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,969 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,375 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,370 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,844 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,554 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,878 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,834 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,097 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,080 | — | — |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,559 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,835 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,301 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,771 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,295 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,798 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,972 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,650 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1992 | 131 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1991 | 147 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1990 | 208 | #920 | — | — |
| 1989 | 229 | #831 | — | — |
| 1988 | 258 | #728 | — | — |
| 1987 | 372 | #541 | — | — |
| 1986 | 424 | #501 | — | — |
| 1985 | 494 | #442 | — | — |
| 1984 | 567 | #387 | — | — |
| 1983 | 554 | #396 | — | — |
| 1982 | 622 | #372 | — | — |
| 1981 | 646 | #363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 855 | #290 | 5 | #7,145 |
| 1979 | 852 | #286 | 5 | #6,934 |
| 1978 | 889 | #264 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,080 | #231 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,144 | #216 | 6 | #5,497 |
| 1975 | 1,272 | #196 | 5 | #6,208 |
| 1974 | 1,621 | #166 | 6 | #5,144 |
| 1973 | 1,852 | #149 | 13 | #2,838 |
| 1972 | 2,349 | #129 | 11 | #3,124 |
| 1971 | 2,860 | #123 | 11 | #3,116 |
| 1970 | 3,165 | #122 | 12 | #2,868 |
| 1969 | 3,529 | #106 | 12 | #2,663 |
| 1968 | 3,641 | #95 | 11 | #2,707 |
| 1967 | 3,841 | #89 | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1966 | 3,747 | #92 | 10 | #2,754 |
| 1965 | 4,065 | #91 | 10 | #2,751 |
| 1964 | 4,871 | #86 | 15 | #2,191 |
| 1963 | 5,460 | #78 | 12 | #2,513 |
| 1962 | 5,363 | #82 | 5 | #4,542 |
| 1961 | 3,807 | #121 | 11 | #2,685 |
| 1960 | 3,309 | #136 | 7 | #3,615 |
| 1959 | 2,870 | #147 | — | — |
| 1958 | 2,472 | #159 | — | — |
| 1957 | 2,247 | #171 | — | — |
| 1956 | 2,033 | #177 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,598 | #198 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,471 | #209 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,583 | #196 | — | — |
| 1952 | 691 | #307 | — | — |
| 1951 | 670 | #301 | — | — |
| 1950 | 469 | #370 | — | — |
| 1949 | 394 | #404 | — | — |
| 1948 | 407 | #392 | — | — |
| 1947 | 410 | #398 | — | — |
| 1946 | 325 | #430 | — | — |
| 1945 | 211 | #505 | — | — |
| 1944 | 208 | #501 | — | — |
| 1943 | 141 | #639 | — | — |
| 1942 | 115 | #695 | — | — |
| 1941 | 76 | #836 | — | — |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,972 | — | — |
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).