Sheri
Sheri is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 115th, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19633,094 births
- Best rank
- #115in 1967
- Since 1928
- 60,457people given the name
The story in the numbers
60,457 girls have been named Sheri in the United States since 1928, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 3,094 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 3,094 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 45%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sheri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 121 | |
| 1940s | 2,035 | |
| 1950s | 10,973 | |
| 1960s | 27,327 | |
| 1970s | 14,397 | |
| 1980s | 4,445 | |
| 1990s | 815 | |
| 2000s | 200 | |
| 2010s | 99 | |
| 2020s | 33 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Sheri was the 136th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Sheri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Danettepeak 1966
- Loriepeak 1963
- Rondapeak 1965
- Sherripeak 1963
- Julipeak 1961
- Dannettepeak 1965
- Tamelapeak 1959
- Treasapeak 1967
Other spellings in the data
- Sherry229,913 ever
- Sherri83,653 ever
- Sherrie35,144 ever
- Sheree13,554 ever
- Sherie5,010 ever
- Sherree1,555 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.