girls:
29.9k births since 1910
#812 (86th percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1956
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
30k births since 1910
#1469 (81st percentile)
The name Cherie is the #1,469 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,966 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 81.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #812 (85.8% percentile) for all time with 29,940 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1956.
Cherie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1956 for boys). Birth data for Cherie is available in 110 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (110 years for girls and 5 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 Cherie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cherie reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 64.9% percentile (ranked #260) with 558 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 562 births per million (ranked 63.4% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Cherie ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cherie reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #660) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cherie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cherie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Cherie is pronounced as SHEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sher-EE, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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