Cherish
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern coinage, apparently an alteration of Cheryth to match the vocabulary word cherish ‘to treasure’, ‘care for’ (borrowed in the Middle Ages from Old French cherir, a derivative of cher ‘dear’)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɛɹɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cherish 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 923as Sherry(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1Kas Sherry
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.1Kas Sherry
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 Cherish 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 193 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 named Sherry, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Sari
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sherry in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more, 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)
Modern coinage, apparently an alteration of Cheryth to match the vocabulary word cherish ‘to treasure’, ‘care for’ (borrowed in the Middle Ages from Old French cherir, a derivative of cher ‘dear’).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cherish 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 | 187,596as Sherry | 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)
Cherish is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: modern coinage, apparently an alteration of CHERYTH to match the vocabulary element cherish to treasure, care for (borrowed in the Middle Ages from Old French cherir , a derivative of cher dear).
as a word
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)
- Cherish Andrewsb. 1989USAmerican poker player
- Cherish HollandUSAmerican actress
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Cherish mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern coinage, apparently an alteration of Cheryth to match the vocabulary word cherish ‘to treasure’, ‘care for’ (borrowed in the Middle Ages from Old French cherir, a derivative of cher ‘dear’). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Cherish a male or female name?
- Cherish 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.
- In which country does Cherish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Sherry in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cherish most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Cherish itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 193 people named Sari.
- How do you pronounce Cherish?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɛɹɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Cherish?
- In the etymology graph, Cheryl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Cherish?
- 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 Cherish compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Cherish is the 72nd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cherish?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cherishThe 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, “Cherish” — the 72nd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.