girls:
36.1k births since 1925
#726 (87th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1961
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
36.1k births since 1925
#1316 (83rd percentile)
The name Cheri is the #1,316 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,065 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 83.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #726 (87.3% percentile) for all time with 36,053 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1961.
Cheri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Cheri is available in 94 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (94 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cheri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cheri reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 71.7% percentile (ranked #219) with 677 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 760 births per million (ranked 70.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cheri ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cheri reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #642) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cheri".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cheri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.6% confident that Cheri is pronounced as SHEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEH-ree, at 19.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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