Sherry
given name · Latin script
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
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sherry is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 72nd most common given name.
- CNChina≈1 in 923(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sherry itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #320 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 572 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 923 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שארי in FI Finland and Sherri in NZ New Zealand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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. Variants: Sherrie, Sherri.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherry counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | — | Sherry | 73 |
| US United States | #131 | 187,596 | 1 in 1.8K | 187K | Sherry | 572 |
| GB United Kingdom | #242 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 554 | Sherry | 179 |
| CA Canada | #113 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 3 | Sherry | 247 |
| EG Egypt | #605 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Sherry | 62 |
| FI Finland | — | 28,915as Sari | 1 in 193 | 31K | שארי | 8 |
| SG Singapore | #72 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sherry | 91 |
| IE Ireland | #129 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Sherry | 79 |
| NZ New Zealand | #253 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 13 | Sherri | 83 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A reduced form of McSherry.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, city, Netherlands
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, pers. name; wine
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, 's-Hertogenbosch
as a namePronouncing 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 187K | #297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 327 | #297 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #8,182 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #8,081 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2023 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sherry come from?
- 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. Variants: Sherrie, Sherri. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- 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.
- 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 are other forms of the name Sherry?
- In the etymology graph, Sherri, Sheri and Shari are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sherry?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187,596 people named Sherry in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sherry compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Sherry is the 72nd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Sherry?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sherry have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Sherry in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherry.
What do you want to know about Sherry?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherryThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Sherry” — the 72nd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.