Sherie
Feminine · “darling”
Sherie sits between two names that came from different places. Cherie is the French word for darling, used directly as a name; Sherry is the English wine, from a Spanish town. The two sound almost identical in American English, and Sherie is the spelling that could be either.
How old is the name Sherie?
Sherie first appears in US birth records in 1935 — 90 years ago. The typical Sherie alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 4,400 people named Sherie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherie most popular?
Sherie peaked in 1956, reaching #665 nationally. See the whole 1956 chart.
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Where it comes from
From chérie to Sherie
The story of Sherie
Cherie entered English-language naming in the twentieth century as one of a small group of French endearments used as names — Cherie, Bijou, Amie — and it sat awkwardly with French speakers, for whom it is what you call someone rather than what you call them. Sherry meanwhile arrived from the drink, which had been in English use since Shakespeare's time under the name sherris. The two converged in American records, and the sh spellings blur them permanently.
Meaningscholars disagree
darling
French cherie is the feminine of cheri, beloved, from a verb meaning to hold dear — it is a term of address rather than a name in French, though English-speaking countries have used it as one. Sherry the drink is named for Jerez in Andalusia, by way of an older English attempt at the place name. Which of the two a given Sherie descends from is not recoverable, and the two are entirely unrelated.
How the name formed
- chérie
- Cherie
- Sherie
Related forms: Chérie
Pronouncing Sherie
SHAIR-ee
SHAIR-ee, two syllables, stress at the front. French says cherie as shay-REE with the weight at the back, so the English name has moved the stress as well as the spelling — this is not simply a respelling of the French word.
Nicknames for Sherie
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
- 1956208 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #665reached in 1956
- Change vs 2007
- −54.5%5 in 2012, from 11
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.
Sherie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chérie in French — related form
Sheries among us
people named Sherie 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
Sherie 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
- Both possible sources are real and both are pleasant, which is more than many ambiguous names manage.
- Sher is a ready short form shared across a whole family of names.
- Two syllables, easy in any accent, and comfortable against most surnames.
- Cherie, Sherri, Sherry and Sherie all crowd the same sound and none is standard.
- The French word is a term of address rather than a name, and French speakers hear it that way.
- It is closely tied to the middle of the last century and dates a person fairly precisely.
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- How many Sheries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Sherie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherie in 2025?
- Sherie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Sherie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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