girls:
229.9k births since 1909
#173 (97th percentile)
boys:
976 births since 1920
#3616 (21st percentile)
overall:
230.9k births since 1909
#346 (96th percentile)
The name Sherry is the #346 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 230,874 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 95.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #173 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 229,898 births since 1909. For boys, it ranks #3,616 (21.1% percentile) for all time with 976 births since 1920.
Sherry first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for girls and 1920 for boys). Birth data for Sherry is available in 112 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (112 years for girls and 66 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 Sherry has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sherry reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 93.9% percentile (ranked #48) with 4,552 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 4,559 births per million (ranked 93.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sherry ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sherry reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #625) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 18 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sherry".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sherry is pronounced as SHEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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