Sherry

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sheri in ES Spain, IN India, 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●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Spanish given name120K records spelled Sherry17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Jërëz, Jéréz, Jêrêz, Jerèz, Jerëz

• French given name22K records spelled Sherry8 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Xérès, Xeres, Shërrÿ, Xéres, Shérry

• Indonesian given name7.4K records spelled Sherry5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Syeri, Shérry

66 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●

Sherry is also recorded in 5 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 fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A reduced form of McSherry.

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

• In English, city, Netherlands

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, pers. name; wine

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, 's-Hertogenbosch

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 114 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●

• Sherry Jacksonb. 1942USAmerican actress
• Sherry Lansingb. 1944USAmerican film studio executive and actress
• Sherry Turkleb. 1948USAmerican social scientist and psychologist
• Sherry Lynnb. 1952USAmerican voice actress
• Sherry Millerb. 1955CACanadian actress
• Sherry Hormannb. 1960USAmerican-German film director and screen writer
• Sherry Rehmanb. 1960PKPakistani politician and diplomat
• Sherry Stringfieldb. 1967USAmerican actress
• Sherry Colab. 1989CNChinese-American actress
• Sherry WhiteCACanadian actor, writer and filmmaker

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 520 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sherry?

We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Sherry (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Sherry have the most bearers?

We estimate about 187 thousand people bear Sherry in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sherry.

Where is Sherry most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sherry is densest in Finland — about 1 in 193 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Sherry compared with other names?

In the United States, Sherry is the 124th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Sherry a male or female name?

Sherry 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 Sherry mean?

Recorded meaning: Probably in origin a respelled form of Cherie, but now associated with the fortified wine, earlier sherry wine, so named from the port of J/érez in southern Spain.