Cherry
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person who lives by a cherry tree’, or ‘grower or seller of cherries’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cherry is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13Kas Cherie(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 867
- CNChina≈1 in 4.2K
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 Cherry 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 867 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cherie in PH Philippines.
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)
‘person who lives by a cherry tree’, or ‘grower or seller of cherries’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cherry 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 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Cherry | 54 |
| PH Philippines | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 867 | — | Cherie | 158 |
| US United States | 25,040as Cherie | 1 in 13K | 36K | Cherry | 476 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 3 | Cherry | 221 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Cherry | 60 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 13 | — | 65 |
| CR Costa Rica | 148 | 1 in 34K | 148 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Cherry 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, from ME chirie, cherye ‘cherry’; probably grower or seller of cherries; first attested Robert Chyry 1284 AssLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, by a cherry tree, or metonymic occupational name for a grower and seller of cherries, from ME cheri(e) (a backformation from ANF cherise (see Cerisier), taken as a pi.). Vars.: Cherrie; Cherryman, Cherriman. Var.; Chynoweth.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
CH IQUINQU I RÁ
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Irish, An English occupational name, fairly numerous in Ulster since the seventeenth century. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Don Cherryb. 1934CACanadian ice hockey coach and television commentator
- Don Cherryb. 1936USAmerican jazz trumpeter (1936–1995)
- C. J. Cherryhb. 1942USnot in their usual nameUnited States science fiction and fantasy author
- Cherry Jonesb. 1956USAmerican actress
- Marc Cherryb. 1962USAmerican television writer and producer
- Eagle-Eye Cherryb. 1968SESwedish singer
- Jonathan Cherryb. 1978CACanadian actor
- Zach Cherryb. 1987USAmerican actor
- Cherry Kissb. 1992RSSerbian pornographic actress
- Jake Cherryb. 1996USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 36K | #970 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 35K | #922 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 34K | #1,005 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Cherry mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person who lives by a cherry tree’, or ‘grower or seller of cherries’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Cherry?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 148 people named Cherry, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- In which country does Cherry have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 328 thousand people named Cherry in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cherry.
What do you want to know about Cherry?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cherryThe 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, “Cherry”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.