Sheri
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sheri is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name, variant of Sherry.
- CACanada1 in 829◐
- SGSingapore1 in 920
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈235K ●
- #604 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 522 ●
- 1 in 193 ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.2M records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sherry in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 16 more, Sherri in DE Germany, NZ New Zealand, שארי in FI Finland and שרי in IL Israel.
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●
A female given name, variant of Sherry.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #124 | 187,269 | 3.6M rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 187K | Sherry | 522 |
| GB United Kingdom | #210 | 162,653 | 166K rec. | — | 9 | Sherry | 137 |
| CA Canada | #123 | 100,407 | 99K rec. | — | 3 | Sherry | 189 |
| AU Australia | #303 | 68,913 | 69K rec. | — | 3 | Sherry | 152 |
| FI Finland | — | 28,908△ | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 193 | 31K | שארי | 9 |
| PH Philippines | #810 | 26,061 | 22K rec. | — | — | Sherry | 91 |
| IT Italy | #343 | 23,051 | 24K rec. | — | 2 | Sherry | 32 |
| IL Israel | #627 | 15,194 | 23K rec. | — | 239 | שרי | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | 14,215 | 7.6K rec. | 1 in 3.5K | 14K | Sheri | 41 |
| SG Singapore | #44 | 11,698 | 12K rec. | — | — | Sherry | 85 |
| EG Egypt | #536 | 9,216 | 7.1K rec. | — | — | Sherry | 56 |
| RU Russia | — | 8,827 | 9.5K rec. | — | — | Sherry | 25 |
Roughly 187K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). 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●
- English631K82%
- 40K5%
- Spanish22K3%
- German5.8K1%
- Hindi5.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 630,891 | 82% |
| 40,250 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 22,210 | 3% |
| German | 5,783 | 1% |
| Hindi | 5,567 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1935 | 14 |
| 1936 | 23 |
| 1937 | 18 |
| 1938 | 23 |
| 1939 | 43 |
| 1940 | 36 |
| 1941 | 68 |
| 1942 | 105 |
| 1943 | 154 |
| 1944 | 157 |
| 1945 | 168 |
| 1946 | 294 |
| 1947 | 348 |
| 1948 | 364 |
| 1949 | 341 |
| 1950 | 413 |
| 1951 | 483 |
| 1952 | 535 |
| 1953 | 713 |
| 1954 | 935 |
| 1955 | 1,144 |
| 1956 | 1,716 |
| 1957 | 1,588 |
| 1958 | 1,600 |
| 1959 | 1,846 |
| 1960 | 2,210 |
| 1961 | 2,488 |
| 1962 | 2,988 |
| 1963 | 3,094 |
| 1964 | 2,920 |
| 1965 | 2,629 |
| 1966 | 2,720 |
| 1967 | 2,959 |
| 1968 | 2,718 |
| 1969 | 2,601 |
| 1970 | 2,400 |
| 1971 | 2,144 |
| 1972 | 1,923 |
| 1973 | 1,667 |
| 1974 | 1,428 |
| 1975 | 1,151 |
| 1976 | 1,094 |
| 1977 | 983 |
| 1978 | 852 |
| 1979 | 755 |
| 1980 | 708 |
| 1981 | 618 |
| 1982 | 515 |
| 1983 | 480 |
| 1984 | 517 |
| 1985 | 470 |
| 1986 | 385 |
| 1987 | 308 |
| 1988 | 257 |
| 1989 | 187 |
| 1990 | 180 |
| 1991 | 143 |
| 1992 | 113 |
| 1993 | 101 |
| 1994 | 81 |
| 1995 | 59 |
| 1996 | 45 |
| 1997 | 38 |
| 1998 | 29 |
| 1999 | 27 |
| 2000 | 28 |
| 2001 | 33 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 21 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 92 years between 1928–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sheri S. Tepperb. 1929USAmerican science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)
- Sheri Elwoodb. 1950CACanadian screenwriter
- Liao Xiaoyib. 1954CNnot in their usual nameChinese activist and journalist
- Sheri St. Claireb. 1957USAmerican pornographic actress
- Sheri Fosterb. 1957USNative American Cherokee actress
- Sheri Holmanb. 1966USnovelist
- Sheri Hagenb. 1968DEGerman actress
- Sheri Moon Zombieb. 1970USAmerican actress and fashion designer
- Sheri Biggsb. 1970USAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Sheri FinkUSAmerican journalist
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52K | #866 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 3.1K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 2.9K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 2.7K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 2.7K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 2.6K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 315 | #2,670 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 243 | #15,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #866 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #17,745 |
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 · 212 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sheri?
- We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Sheri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sheri have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 187 thousand people bear Sheri in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sherry.
- Where is Sheri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sheri is densest in Finland — about 1 in 193 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Sheri compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sheri is the 124th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Sheri a male or female name?
- Sheri 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 Sheri mean?
- Recorded meaning: A female given name, variant of Sherry.
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About this data
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, “Sheri” — the 124th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.