Chery

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chery is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Haiti it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 83K◐
  • HTHaiti1 in 556
  • JMJamaica1 in 16K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.8K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
244 ●

37K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 83K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chery is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,02731K rec.1 in 83K4.9KChery244
GB United Kingdom—7841.3K rec.——Chery39
CA Canada—395594 rec.——Chery52
FR France—365△7 rec.1 in 186K365—1
BR Brazil—3110 rec.1 in 681K311—1
JM Jamaica#545302399 rec.——Chery2
AU Australia—269505 rec.——Chery32
HT Haiti#1250217 rec.—listedChery22
IT Italy—125242 rec.——Chery8
RU Russia—118161 rec.——Chery11
MA Morocco—93108 rec.——Chery7
DE Germany—49147 rec.——Chery20

Roughly 4K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 83K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English24K47%
  • French18K35%
  • Spanish2.6K5%
  • 2K4%
  • Portuguese9212%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English24,18847%
French17,89035%
Spanish2,6365%
2,0104%
Portuguese9212%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chery is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname19K records spelled Chery7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Haiti, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Chéry, Cherý, Chėry, Chèry, Chërÿ

  • a separate surname3.0K records spelled Chery2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Chéry

  • a separate surname279 records spelled Chery3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Chéry, Cherỵ

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chery is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, charioteering, writing, and mathematics )

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030401950196019701980199037 · 1957

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Chery in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1945–1990
Yearrecords
19458
19467
194714
194812
19497
195114
19527
195314
195419
195520
195622
195737
195828
195937
196032
196124
196216
196322
196416
196517
196616
196714
196818
196922
197010
197113
197212
19739
197414
19758
19767
197713
197910
19809
19819
19855
19905

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1945–1990. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Roberto Chery, b. 1896Andre Vilaire Chery, b. 1954Yumna Chery, b. 1970Priscilla Chery, b. 1971Rochel Chery, b. 1982Jason Chery, b. 1985Edens Chery, b. 1986Tjaronn Chery, b. 1988Kenny Chery, b. 1992Alexia Chartereau, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Chery
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.9K#6,605
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104K#8,232
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#11,287
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961369—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991365—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971348—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951344—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981332—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—311#25,618
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941296—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931254—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 140 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chery?
We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Chery (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Chery have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.0 thousand people bear Chery in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chery.
How common is Chery compared with other names?
In Haiti, Chery is the most common surname of 1,393 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chery” — the most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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