Cherry

Where Cherry comes from

The dictionaries list Cherry as a given name — a female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1948
    Peak, #429
    343 babies named Cherry — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    Cherry Jones born
    American actress
  4. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #820.
  5. 1977
    Cherry Chevapravatdumrong born
    American writer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name.
Namesakes
  • Cherry Jones · American actress, born 1956
  • Cherry Chevapravatdumrong · American writer, born 1977
  • Cherry Ann Murray · American professor, born 1952
  • Cherry Kearton · English nature photographer and filmmaker, 1871–1940
  • Cherry Vanilla · American singer-songwriter, born 1943

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.