Sheree
Feminine · “darling”
Sheree is the French chérie written the way an English speaker hears it. It is the fifth spelling of a mid-century American sound, and the only one that makes the French connection visible.
How old is the name Sheree?
Sheree first appears in US birth records in 1935 — 90 years ago. The typical Sheree alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 12,000 people named Sheree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sheree most popular?
Sheree peaked in 1956, reaching #220 nationally. See the whole 1956 chart.
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Where it comes from
From chérie to Sheree
The story of Sheree
The Sherry sound arrived in American use in the 1940s alongside Cheryl and Sharon and was written five ways within twenty years: Sherry, Sherri, Sheri, Sherrie and Sheree. The last is the one that spells the French word phonetically rather than borrowing the wine's spelling, which suggests the families using it had chérie in mind. It peaked in the early 1970s, the last of the five to arrive.
Meaningscholars disagree
darling, beloved
Read as a phonetic spelling of the French chérie, 'darling' — the feminine past participle of chérir, 'to cherish' — the meaning is transparent. Read instead as a variant of Sherry, it inherits that name's unsettled parentage, which includes the wine and simple clipping from Sharon. The -ee ending makes the French reading the more likely one.
How the name formed
- chérie
- Sheree
Related forms: Chérie · Sherry · Cheri
Pronouncing Sheree
shuh-REE
Two syllables, stress on the second — which is what distinguishes this spelling from Sherry, where the stress is on the first.
Nicknames for Sheree
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1935
- Most girls named
- 19551,269 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #220reached in 1956
- Change vs 2013
- −37.5%5 in 2023, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sheree in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chérie in French — related form
- Sherry in English — spelling variant
- Cheri in English — spelling variant
Sherees among us
people named Sheree are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Sheree has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It makes the French meaning visible in a way the other spellings of the sound do not.
- The end stress gives it a distinct rhythm and separates it audibly from Sherry.
- Two soft syllables with no pronunciation risk once the stress is known.
- Five spellings of this sound family were in use at once.
- The stress differs from Sherry, so the two are not quite interchangeable in speech.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s.
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- How many Sherees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,000 people named Sheree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sheree in 2025?
- Sheree is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Sheree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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