Sherri
- Pronunciation
- [She-rri]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- From The White Meadow
- Origin
- English
About the Name Sherri
Sherri is an English feminine name sometimes traced to the meaning "from the white meadow" — a reading that suggests a possible connection to Old English place-name roots, though the name functions in practice as a phonetic variant of Sherry or Cherie. Chérie is a French term of endearment meaning "darling" or "dear one," and the anglicized Sherry and its spelling variants including Sherri carry that affectionate warmth while wearing a more English orthographic dress. The name may also have loose associations with the Spanish city of Jerez, historically Xerez and the source of the fortified wine called sherry — though as a given name its main appeal has always been its gentle, friendly sound rather than any single clear etymological derivation. The uncertainty is worth naming honestly: this is a name whose charm is phonetic and cultural rather than rooted in one definitive source.
Sherri first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 1962 and peaked in 1963 at rank #78, a brief but productive window during the early 1960s when Sherry-family names were collectively popular. It last appeared in the top-1000 in 1968 at rank #95 with 3,641 births, accumulating more than 30,000 top-1000 births across its seven tracked years. It has not re-entered the SSA top-1000 in the SSA top-1000 beyond 1968, giving it a tightly focused early-1960s moment in American naming history. No recorded variants exist for this specific spelling, though the broader Sherry family encompasses several forms; Sherri stands as a self-contained, distinctively spelled variant with its own brief chart life.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Sherri
US Popularity History (1962–1968)
Annual US births named Sherri by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1963 with 5,457 girls named Sherri (girl rank #78 that year).
Where it stands today: in 1968, ranked #95 for girls (3,641 US births). That's 17 places below its 1963 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Sherri Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 1968–1977 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Sherri the strongest states are West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kansas.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | #66 | 323 |
| 2 | Oklahoma | #69 | 372 |
| 3 | Kansas | #69 | 208 |
| 4 | South Dakota | #76 | 69 |
| 5 | Missouri | #79 | 514 |
| 6 | North Carolina | #81 | 565 |
| 7 | Kentucky | #82 | 425 |
| 8 | Indiana | #84 | 457 |
| 9 | Arkansas | #85 | 122 |
| 10 | Florida | #86 | 360 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maryland | #94 | 188 |
| 2 | Maine | #91 | 59 |
| 3 | Ohio | #90 | 667 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | #90 | 1,028 |
| 5 | Delaware | #90 | 47 |
| 6 | Virginia | #89 | 514 |
| 7 | Rhode Island | #88 | 111 |
| 8 | Florida | #86 | 360 |
| 9 | Arkansas | #85 | 122 |
| 10 | Indiana | #84 | 457 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 1968–1977. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Sherri in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Sherri to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Sherri against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).