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Sheri

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Sheri is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Sheri mean?

English: spelling of Sherry

A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.

Meaning borrowed from Sherry. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Sheri a girl's or a boy's name?

Sheri is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sheri in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 7 girls.

1996Busiest: 7 in 19962011
Sheri in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20113#6,007
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20061#6,685
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19986#2,535
19977#2,281
19967#2,201

How popular is Sheri in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Sheri, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1963, with 3,094 girls. It first appears in the records in 1928.

Half of all the girls named Sheri in the US since 1880 were born between 1960 and 1972, the years shaded on the chart below.

1928Busiest: 3,094 in 19632025
Sheri in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
202311#8,984
20227#12,237
20219#10,287
20206#13,448
20198#11,350
201811#9,146
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
20159#10,861
20149#10,949
201312#9,031
201217#7,140
20117#13,339
201011#9,786
20099#11,454
200820#6,556
20078#12,671
200618#6,838
200516#7,133
200423#5,373
200321#5,581
200224#4,902
200133#3,860
200028#4,286
199927#4,197
199829#3,911
199738#3,102
199645#2,710
199559#2,239
199481#1,781
1993101#1,536
1992113#1,428
1991143#1,201
1990180#1,006
1989187#945
1988257#729
1987308#624
1986385#530
1985470#457
1984517#412
1983480#438
1982515#425
1981618#376
1980708#341
1979755#318
1978852#271
1977983#251
19761,094#221
19751,151#214
19741,428#184
19731,667#165
19721,923#147
19712,144#151
19702,400#140
19692,601#132
19682,718#119
19672,959#115
19662,720#134
19652,629#141
19642,920#138
19633,094#136
19622,988#145
19612,488#168
19602,210#179
19591,846#192
19581,600#203
19571,588#210
19561,716#195
19551,144#242
1954935#277
1953713#309
1952535#356
1951483#366
1950413#395
1949341#428
1948364#415
1947348#439
1946294#453
1945168#567
1944157#585
1943154#605
1942105#734
194168#887
194036#1,218
193943#1,091
193823#1,596
193718#1,845
193623#1,549
193514#2,205
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19295#4,568
19287#3,741

Names like Sheri

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Holly Robyn Heidi Joni Amber Marnie April Penny Michelle Gigi Darcie Heather

Names related to Sheri

Sehr Seri Sherry Serai Sheree Saher Sherrie Shari Sherri

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sheri: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sheri, updated 20 October 2026.