Cheryl

given name · English · Latin script

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

Cheryl is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern English name, probably from Cherie/Cherry; ultimate origin uncertain.

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore1 in 588◐
  • CACanada1 in 588
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 601

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

≈373K ●

across 4 countries

#386 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
541 ●

6.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 894 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

CherylLatin · English●5.1M records
שרילHebrew · Hebrew●2.1K records
เชอรีลThai · Thai●5 records
চেরিলBengali · Bangla●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sheryl in PH Philippines, FR France, IL Israel and 5 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Modern English name, probably from Cherie/Cherry; ultimate origin uncertain.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Cheryl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#90372,0844.9M rec.1 in 894372KCheryl541
GB United Kingdom#97343,954317K rec.—3Cheryl233
AU Australia#121175,157133K rec.—101Cheryl217
PH Philippines#90172,339146K rec.—53KSheryl133
CA Canada#86141,411138K rec.—1Cheryl220
IT Italy#27432,04332K rec.—4Cheryl54
SG Singapore#1518,30717K rec.——Cheryl141
DE Germany#71517,43817K rec.—1Cheryl92
RU Russia—14,21215K rec.——Cheryl38
NZ New Zealand#4513,89413K rec.—10Cheryl95
EG Egypt#46810,80610K rec.——Cheryl25
IE Ireland#12110,79113K rec.——Cheryl69

Roughly 372K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 894). 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●

  • English5.1M84%
  • 264K4%
  • Spanish157K3%
  • French42K1%
  • German40K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,077,06584%
264,0324%
Spanish157,1073%
French41,5921%
German40,2731%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name296K records spelled Cheryl2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Chéryl

  • Spanish given name263K records spelled Cheryl12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Chéryl, Chèryl, Chêryl, Chêrÿl

  • Polish given name24K records spelled Cheryl40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Sheryl, Sherrill, Шерил, Sheril, Черіл

61 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●

Cheryl is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Forme anglo-saxonne de Charlotte; origine germanique, signifie « virile ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Amada

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • English: not found before the 1920s, and not common until the 1940s. It seems to be an artificial creation, perhaps the result of a crossing of CHERRY with BERYL .

    as a word

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●

010K20K30K19201940196019802000202024K · 1958

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Cheryl in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1909–2025
Yearrecords
19095
19125
19147
19168
191722
191816
191912
192013
192118
192218
192328
192422
192521
192626
192732
192846
192944
193042
193149
193249
193360
193476
193599
193694
1937145
1938397
1939289
1940284
1941442
1942591
19432,878
19447,972
19458,149
194611,526
194713,890
194813,220
194912,007
195011,823
195111,986
195212,201
195312,264
195415,015
195519,111
195621,278
195722,643
195824,119
195920,947
196019,120
196118,301
196216,587
196315,047
196414,081
196512,550
196611,713
196710,767
19689,138
19698,346
19707,440
19716,327
19725,136
19734,010
19743,496
19752,997
19762,489
19772,121
19783,167
19793,210
19802,609
19812,116
19821,875
19831,562
19841,323
19851,224
19861,031
1987959
1988889
1989731
1990615
1991539
1992441
1993374
1994307
1995255
1996250
1997198
1998165
1999173
2000127
2001143
2002104
2003115
2004116
2005103
200687
200786
200891
200964
201079
201165
201272
201355
201458
201556
201673
201756
201857
201941
202030
202149
202244
202331
202437
202532

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 113 years between 1909–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Cher, b. 1946Cheryl Tiegs, b. 1947Gates McFadden, b. 1949Cheryl Ladd, b. 1951Cheryl Lynn, b. 1957Cheryl Miller, b. 1964Cheryl Hines, b. 1965Cheryl Bernard, b. 1966Cheryl Dunye, b. 1966Cheryl Cole, b. 1983
  • Cherb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, actress and television personality (born 1946)
  • Cheryl Tiegsb. 1947USAmerican model
  • Gates McFaddenb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and choreographer
  • Cheryl Laddb. 1951USAmerican actress, singer, and author
  • Cheryl Lynnb. 1957USAmerican singer
  • Cheryl Millerb. 1964USAmerican basketball player and coach (born 1964)
  • Cheryl Hinesb. 1965USAmerican actress
  • Cheryl Bernardb. 1966CACanadian curler
  • Cheryl Dunyeb. 1966USAmerican actress and director (born 1966)
  • Cheryl Coleb. 1983GBBritish singer, dancer, and television presenter

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 68 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Cheryl
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020372K#130
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.3K#1,079
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1K#2,041
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025792#92
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022705#2,044
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020257#130
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—182#5,126
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025119#20
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—117#13,985
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—115#7,763
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—111#6,454
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)1972101#94

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 669 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cheryl?
We estimate roughly 373 thousand people bear Cheryl (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Cheryl have the most bearers?
We estimate about 372 thousand people bear Cheryl in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cheryl.
How common is Cheryl compared with other names?
In the United States, Cheryl is the 90th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Cheryl a male or female name?
Cheryl is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Cheryl mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern English name, probably from Cherie/Cherry; ultimate origin uncertain.
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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, “Cheryl” — the 90th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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