Sherry
Sherry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 48th, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19629,223 births
- Best rank
- #48in 1962
- Since 1909
- 229,913people given the name
The story in the numbers
229,913 girls have been named Sherry in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 9,223 births — 0.47% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 16 births in 2024, against 9,223 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 34%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sherry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 88 | |
| 1920s | 555 | |
| 1930s | 3,696 | |
| 1940s | 32,759 | |
| 1950s | 68,322 | |
| 1960s | 77,526 | |
| 1970s | 34,204 | |
| 1980s | 8,583 | |
| 1990s | 2,400 | |
| 2000s | 1,012 | |
| 2010s | 618 | |
| 2020s | 145 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Sherry was the 48th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Sherry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pamalapeak 1958
- Dorindapeak 1957
- Paulapeak 1963
- Sheilapeak 1962
- Trudipeak 1965
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Penneypeak 1962
- Ronnapeak 1963
Other spellings in the data
- Sherri83,653 ever
- Sheri60,457 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.