girls:
60.5k births since 1928
#517 (91st percentile)
boys:
114 births since 1956
#4472 (2nd percentile)
overall:
60.6k births since 1928
#955 (88th percentile)
The name Sheri is the #955 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 60,572 recorded births since 1928. This represents the 87.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #517 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 60,458 births since 1928. For boys, it ranks #4,472 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1956.
Sheri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1928 (1928 for girls and 1956 for boys). Birth data for Sheri is available in 91 out of the 96 years between 1928 and 2023 (91 years for girls and 14 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 Sheri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sheri reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 84.5% percentile (ranked #115) with 1,723 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 1,723 births per million (ranked 84.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sheri ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sheri reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #634) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sheri".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Sheri", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 31 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Sherry" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Sherry..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sheri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Sheri is pronounced as SHEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sher-EE, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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