Meaning and history
Probably inspired by the French word chérie, meaning “darling,” or by the English word sherry, the fortified wine named for the Spanish town of Jerez. The name came into popular use in the 1920s, influenced by other similar-sounding names and by Colette’s novels Chéri (1920, English translation 1929) and The Last of Chéri (1926, English translation 1932), where it is used as a masculine name. It also coincides with an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac Searraigh, from the byname Searrach meaning “foal.”
20062006: 91 births, rank #2,127
2007: 95 births, rank #2,117
2008: 77 births, rank #2,462
2009: 77 births, rank #2,465
2010: 64 births, rank #2,752
20112011: 69 births, rank #2,589
2012: 72 births, rank #2,516
2013: 63 births, rank #2,726
2014: 63 births, rank #2,739
2015: 78 births, rank #2,351
20162016: 53 births, rank #3,100
2017: 66 births, rank #2,635
2018: 46 births, rank #3,396
2019: 44 births, rank #3,499
2020: 42 births, rank #3,546
20212021: 28 births, rank #4,719
2022: 38 births, rank #3,893
2023: 21 births, rank #5,752
2024: 16 births, rank #6,932
20252025: 23 births, rank #5,410
Sherry moved from #829 to #933 for girls between 1994 and 1995. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 9,223 births.