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Sherri

Sherri means "French chérie, dear one" and comes from French, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. Its single strongest year on record was 1963.

EtymologyVariant of Cherie/Sherry
FrenchFrench "chérie" – "dear one"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
6
1930s
102
1940s
2,325
1950s
16,104
1960s
41,730
1970s
17,156
1980s
5,026
1990s
930
2000s
271
2010s
104
Peaked in the 1960s · 83,754 total U.S. births since 1900