Meaning not yet researched.
Sherry: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #48 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #48 in 1962; #5,532 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sherry in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,532 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #48.
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Sherry: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #48 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 9,223 (1962).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Sherry, making it the 5,532nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,678 places from #7,210 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 16 girls named Sherry in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #48, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9,223. For comparison, it was #2,379 in 2015 and #62 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sherry in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 230,913 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 77,778 babies named Sherry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 377 US girls were named Sherry; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sheryl (79,026 babies since 1880), Sherie (5,010 babies since 1880), Sherri (83,843 babies since 1880) and Sheri (60,578 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sherrye, Sheria and Sherria 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: Sherrye (674), Sheria (654), Sherria (419), Shery (391), Sherea (231), Sherrey (67), Sherye (42), Shirey (7), Sheery (6), Sheary (5), Sherrea (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 Sherry in the open dataset we use.
Sherry is listed as a nickname for Charlotte, Sheryl, Shirley.
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 | 23 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,210 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,953 | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,134 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1998 | 142 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1997 | 166 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1995 | 203 | #933 | — | — |
| 1994 | 244 | #829 | — | — |
| 1993 | 313 | #692 | — | — |
| 1992 | 305 | #708 | — | — |
| 1991 | 353 | #634 | 5 | #9,418 |
| 1990 | 399 | #582 | — | — |
| 1989 | 449 | #520 | 5 | #9,031 |
| 1988 | 548 | #423 | — | — |
| 1987 | 567 | #401 | 7 | #6,003 |
| 1986 | 672 | #354 | 6 | #6,607 |
| 1985 | 822 | #299 | 8 | #5,078 |
| 1984 | 879 | #273 | 6 | #6,211 |
| 1983 | 929 | #256 | 9 | #4,441 |
| 1982 | 1,047 | #242 | 5 | #7,218 |
| 1981 | 1,266 | #208 | 5 | #7,120 |
| 1980 | 1,404 | #192 | 7 | #5,433 |
| 1979 | 1,591 | #175 | 11 | #3,779 |
| 1978 | 1,825 | #151 | 13 | #3,198 |
| 1977 | 2,071 | #140 | 8 | #4,522 |
| 1976 | 2,359 | #111 | 6 | #5,498 |
| 1975 | 3,044 | #95 | 13 | #3,057 |
| 1974 | 3,436 | #89 | 12 | #3,098 |
| 1973 | 3,952 | #76 | 19 | #2,204 |
| 1972 | 4,447 | #70 | 21 | #2,013 |
| 1971 | 5,562 | #60 | 25 | #1,819 |
| 1970 | 5,917 | #60 | 26 | #1,737 |
| 1969 | 6,139 | #55 | 17 | #2,120 |
| 1968 | 6,435 | #52 | 24 | #1,641 |
| 1967 | 7,130 | #51 | 22 | #1,703 |
| 1966 | 6,983 | #53 | 26 | #1,537 |
| 1965 | 7,381 | #56 | 23 | #1,664 |
| 1964 | 8,496 | #50 | 26 | #1,574 |
| 1963 | 9,065 | #49 | 26 | #1,576 |
| 1962 | 9,223 | #48 | 38 | #1,275 |
| 1961 | 8,361 | #53 | 23 | #1,729 |
| 1960 | 8,314 | #54 | 26 | #1,614 |
| 1959 | 7,341 | #58 | 16 | #2,098 |
| 1958 | 6,802 | #67 | 15 | #2,161 |
| 1957 | 7,804 | #55 | 24 | #1,664 |
| 1956 | 7,898 | #54 | 16 | #2,081 |
| 1955 | 7,769 | #56 | 20 | #1,781 |
| 1954 | 7,120 | #62 | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1953 | 5,935 | #70 | 18 | #1,889 |
| 1952 | 5,956 | #68 | 19 | #1,797 |
| 1951 | 5,889 | #70 | 22 | #1,640 |
| 1950 | 5,808 | #62 | 19 | #1,738 |
| 1949 | 5,295 | #68 | 21 | #1,660 |
| 1948 | 5,717 | #61 | 28 | #1,397 |
| 1947 | 5,579 | #67 | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1946 | 4,518 | #73 | 19 | #1,684 |
| 1945 | 2,676 | #104 | 16 | #1,758 |
| 1944 | 2,733 | #100 | 21 | #1,521 |
| 1943 | 2,314 | #123 | 16 | #1,896 |
| 1942 | 1,818 | #145 | 17 | #1,793 |
| 1941 | 1,252 | #172 | 12 | #2,191 |
| 1940 | 857 | #207 | 15 | #1,884 |
| 1939 | 739 | #226 | 12 | #2,147 |
| 1938 | 674 | #246 | 8 | #2,838 |
| 1937 | 648 | #244 | 11 | #2,316 |
| 1936 | 568 | #257 | 17 | #1,719 |
| 1935 | 436 | #288 | 13 | #2,113 |
| 1934 | 191 | #467 | 8 | #2,931 |
| 1933 | 126 | #572 | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1932 | 125 | #591 | 8 | #3,056 |
| 1931 | 98 | #677 | — | — |
| 1930 | 91 | #737 | 13 | #2,280 |
| 1929 | 74 | #826 | 5 | #4,461 |
| 1928 | 75 | #836 | 6 | #4,087 |
| 1927 | 81 | #814 | — | — |
| 1926 | 64 | #938 | 9 | #3,109 |
| 1925 | 67 | #912 | 5 | #4,781 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,149 | 9 | #3,226 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,140 | 7 | #3,770 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,746 | 5 | #4,883 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,503 | — | — |
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).