girls:
83.6k births since 1924
#421 (93rd percentile)
boys:
176 births since 1960
#4410 (4th percentile)
overall:
83.8k births since 1924
#770 (90th percentile)
The name Sherri is the #770 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,818 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 90.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #421 (92.6% percentile) for all time with 83,642 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,410 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 176 births since 1960.
Sherri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1960 for boys). Birth data for Sherri is available in 91 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (91 years for girls and 19 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 Sherri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sherri reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 90.0% percentile (ranked #78) with 2,745 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 2,745 births per million (ranked 90.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sherri ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sherri reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #651) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sherri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sherri is pronounced as SHEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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