Cherri

Where Cherri comes from

The dictionaries list Cherri as a given name — a female given name from English, variant of Cherry — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #4,349 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Peak, #739
    197 babies named Cherri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,289.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, variant of Cherry.
Namesakes
  • Cherri M. Pancake · ethnographer and computer scientist

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.