Cheri

Girl name

Cheri has been given to 36,080 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It peaked in 1960.

Meaning & origin /ʃəˈɹiː/

A variant of Sherry or coined from French chéri, chérie (“darling”), not used as a given name in France.

Origin: coinages

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

36,080

Peak year

1960 (1,410 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1925

10-year trend

▼ -54%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Cheri Oteri

American comic actress

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Cheri.

36,170 babies since 1882

35,595 babies since 1880

35,514 babies since 1927

35,159 babies since 1921

34,861 babies since 1914

37,380 babies since 1880

34,674 babies since 1915

38,017 babies since 1942

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