Sherri
Sherri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 78th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19635,457 births
- Best rank
- #78in 1963
- Since 1924
- 83,653people given the name
The story in the numbers
83,653 girls have been named Sherri in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 5,457 births — 0.28% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 5,457 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 50%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sherri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1930s | 102 | |
| 1940s | 2,325 | |
| 1950s | 16,105 | |
| 1960s | 41,630 | |
| 1970s | 17,084 | |
| 1980s | 5,021 | |
| 1990s | 929 | |
| 2000s | 271 | |
| 2010s | 130 | |
| 2020s | 50 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Sherri was the 78th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Sherri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Loriepeak 1963
- Sheripeak 1963
- Rondapeak 1965
- Lauripeak 1961
- Sharripeak 1962
- Loripeak 1963
- Tamelapeak 1959
- Lorriepeak 1961
Other spellings in the data
- Sherry229,913 ever
- Sheri60,457 ever
- Sherrie35,144 ever
- Sheree13,554 ever
- Sherie5,010 ever
- Sherree1,555 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.