Sherrie
Feminine
Sherrie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 35,148 girls against 11 boys since 1880.
Sherrie is the fourth spelling of a sound that mid-century America could not settle. Sherry, Sherri, Sheri and Sherrie each held their own line on the chart for two decades, with no single one taking the lead.
How old is the name Sherrie?
Sherrie first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Sherrie alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 30,500 people named Sherrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sherrie most popular?
Sherrie peaked in 1962, reaching #215 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 14,727 places below that high. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Jerez to Sherrie
The story of Sherrie
The wine route is the best documented: Jerez de la Frontera gave its name to a wine England imported in enormous quantity, and English heard the town's name as sherris and then back-formed the singular sherry. As a given name it is twentieth-century American, arriving alongside Cheryl and Sharon in the 1940s. Sherrie belongs to the -ie wave and peaked in the mid-1960s, the last of the four spellings to arrive.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Three parents compete and no evidence chooses between them: the wine sherry, from Jerez in Andalusia by way of an English mishearing; the French chérie, 'darling'; and simple clipping from Sharon or Cheryl. Where a family had one in mind, that is the meaning; where the name was chosen for its sound, there is none.
How the name formed
- Jerez
- sherry
- Sherry
- Sherrie
Related forms: Chérie · Sherry · Sherri · Sheri
Pronouncing Sherrie
SHER-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All four spellings are said identically.
Nicknames for Sherrie
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
- 1921
- Most girls named
- 19621,534 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #215reached in 1962
- Change vs 2022
- −37.5%5 in 2025, 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.
Sherrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chérie in French — related form
- Sherry in English — spelling variant
- Sherri in English — spelling variant
- Sheri in English — spelling variant
Sherries among us
people named Sherrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Sherrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Francine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sherrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Francine climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Francine's path sketches the road Sherrie is walking now.
Sherrie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sherrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sherrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The -ie ending reads warmer than -y or -i without changing the sound.
- Soft throughout, with no hard consonants and no pronunciation risk.
- It has a genuinely interesting etymology through the wine, including a documented English mishearing.
- Four spellings were current at once, so it is written wrongly more often than rightly.
- The origin is unsettled, so the name cannot promise a meaning.
- It is closely dated to the 1960s.
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Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sherries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 30,500 people named Sherrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sherrie in 2025?
- Sherrie ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sherrie?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Sherrie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sherrie with classmates?
- Sherrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sherrie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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