Sherri
The girl's name Sherri has been in the national records since 1924, with 83,843 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 74,000 Sherris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sherri boys named Sherri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 83,843
- Estimated living today
- 74,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1963
- Best rank
- 78th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 83,667 / 176
How old the living Sherris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 83,843 babies given the name since 1924, about 74,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 230 of them are children and 17,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sherris
- Sherri Shepherd (born 1967)American actress, comedian, author and television personality
- Sherri Saum (born 1974)American actress
- Sherri Martel (1958–2007)American professional wrestler and manager
- Sherri Howard (born 1962)Athletics competitor, sprinter, 400 metres runner
- Sherri Stoner (born 1959)American actress
People named Sherri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sherri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sherri is most concentrated in Oklahoma (2.0×), West Virginia (1.7×), Kansas (1.7×), Indiana (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1963
The most popular girls’ names the year Sherri peaked:
Sherri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Sherri | 28 | 1,914th |
| France girls | Sherri | 10 | 2,049th |
| Scotland girls | Sherri | 3 | 516th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Sherri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.