Sherice
Feminine
Sherice ends in a syllable that English only ever uses in French borrowings. Read as eece rather than as ice, that ending appears in police, caprice, valise and almost nothing native; it is a marker of foreign origin that English has never assimilated. American naming borrowed it as a shape, applied it to fronts with no French behind them, and produced a family of names that look imported and are not.
How old is the name Sherice?
Sherice first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Sherice alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 1,400 people named Sherice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherice most popular?
Sherice peaked in 1973, reaching #1589 nationally. See the whole 1973 chart.
Where it comes from
From A front from a large family of twentieth-century coinages to Sherice
Our story of Sherice
The ending is doing two jobs at once. It signals foreignness, because every English word that uses it is a borrowing, and it forces the stress onto the last syllable, which English names otherwise almost never do. Both effects are useful to a naming system that wants a name to sound distinctive without being difficult, and both are achieved with three letters. What is worth noticing is that the shape was borrowed and the words were not: no French word or name lies behind this one, and a French speaker would find it unfamiliar. That is the ordinary condition of a great many American names of the period, and it is a description rather than a criticism. Borrowing a shape rather than a word is what naming systems do when they are manufacturing rather than inheriting.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Neither half supplies a meaning. The front belongs to a large family of twentieth-century American women's names with no traceable ancestor, and the ending is a borrowed sound-shape rather than a suffix carrying sense. Reference works offering a French derivation are reading the appearance. The accurate description is a made name, built from two pieces that were both in wide circulation.
How the name formed
- A front from a large family of twentieth-century coinages
- An ending borrowed from French loanwords
- Sherice, Sharice and Cherise together
- The family receding across one generation
Pronouncing Sherice
shuh-REECE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The ending rhymes with piece rather than with ice, which the spelling does not tell you and which is the single most common mistake a stranger makes with this name.
Nicknames for Sherice
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 198059 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1589reached in 1973
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%6 in 2010, from 6
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.
Sherices among us
people named Sherice 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
Sherice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The back stress gives it a lift and it is memorable once heard.
- Reece is available as a short form and is a complete name on its own.
- It is distinctive without being difficult to say.
- The ending is read two ways and the wrong one is the more natural guess.
- Charisse, Cherise and Sharice are all in circulation and will be confused with it.
- There is no meaning to give, and the French look is borrowed rather than inherited.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sherices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Sherice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherice in 2025?
- Sherice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sherice with classmates?
- Sherice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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