Cherrier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of cherry: more cherry
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɛʁje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cherrier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
comparative form of cherry: more cherry
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Cherrier is read(measured from records)
Cherrier is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French72%
variante de Charrier, de l’ancien français charreier « charretier »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English24%
comparative form of cherry: more cherry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Claude Cherrierb. 1655French poet
- Jean-Claude Cherrierb. 1752FRFrench politician (1752-1823)
- Marie Joseph Just Cherrierb. 1859FRFrench soldier (1859–1945)
- Marcel Cherrierb. 1902FRFrench politician (1902-1985)
- Lionel Cherrierb. 1929FRNew Caledonian politician (1929–2016)
- Bruno Cherrierb. 1953FRFrench sprinter
- Sophie Cherrierb. 1959FRFrench musician
- Gontran Cherrierb. 1978FRFrench television presenter
- Marie Cherrierb. 1984FRFrench singer
- Beatrice CherrierFRFrench historian of economics
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 432 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 422 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 399 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 361 | #56,588 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 351 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 346 | #62,494 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 337 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 326 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 322 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 318 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 286 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Cherrier mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of cherry: more cherry Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cherrier?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛʁje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Cherrier have the most bearers?
- Cherrier is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Cherrier?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cherrierThe 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, “Cherrier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.