Cherie

Where Cherie comes from

Variant of Cheri.
— Wiktionary's entry for Cherie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,398 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Cherie Blair born
    British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
  3. 1959
    Cherie Currie born
    American rock musician, actress, and woodcarver, former member of The Runaways
  4. 1967
    Peak, #274
    958 babies named Cherie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #440.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Cherie Blair · British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, born 1954
  • Cherie Currie · American rock musician, actress, and woodcarver, former member of The Runaways, born 1959
  • Cherie Chung · Hong Kong actress, born 1960
  • Cherie Lunghi · English actress and voice over artist, born 1952
  • Cherie Priest · American writer, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.