Sheri
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #3,941
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 2,959 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 60,464since 1928
Sheri over time
Rank among girls' names. Sheri has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,786 | 81 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,431 | 113 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,205 | 143 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,008 | 180 | — | |
| 1989 | #948 | 187 | — | |
| 1988 | #729 | 257 | — | |
| 1987 | #624 | 308 | — | |
| 1986 | #530 | 385 | — | |
| 1985 | #457 | 470 | — | |
| 1984 | #412 | 517 | — | |
| 1983 | #438 | 480 | — | |
| 1982 | #425 | 515 | — | |
| 1981 | #376 | 618 | — | |
| 1980 | #341 | 708 | — | |
| 1979 | #318 | 755 | — | |
| 1978 | #271 | 852 | — | |
| 1977 | #251 | 983 | — | |
| 1976 | #221 | 1,094 | — | |
| 1975 | #214 | 1,151 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #184 | 1,428 | — | |
| 1973 | #165 | 1,667 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #147 | 1,923 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #151 | 2,144 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #140 | 2,400 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #132 | 2,601 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #119 | 2,718 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #115 | 2,959 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #134 | 2,720 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #141 | 2,629 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #138 | 2,920 | — | |
| 1963 | #136 | 3,094 | #2,300 | 13 |
| 1962 | #145 | 2,988 | — | |
| 1961 | #168 | 2,488 | — | |
| 1960 | #179 | 2,210 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #192 | 1,846 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #203 | 1,600 | — | |
| 1957 | #210 | 1,588 | — | |
| 1956 | #195 | 1,716 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #242 | 1,144 | — | |
| 1954 | #277 | 935 | — | |
| 1953 | #309 | 713 | — | |
| 1952 | #357 | 535 | — | |
| 1951 | #367 | 483 | — | |
| 1950 | #396 | 413 | — | |
| 1949 | #429 | 341 | — | |
| 1948 | #415 | 364 | — | |
| 1947 | #439 | 348 | — | |
| 1946 | #453 | 294 | — | |
| 1945 | #567 | 168 | — | |
| 1944 | #585 | 157 | — | |
| 1943 | #605 | 154 | — | |
| 1942 | #734 | 105 | — | |
| 1941 | #887 | 68 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,218 | 36 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,091 | 43 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,596 | 23 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,845 | 18 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,549 | 23 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,206 | 14 | — | |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sheri! It came in at #3,743, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1934, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sheri
- 245 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #13,208)
- 2,342 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 331 spots in 1941 (#1,218 → #887)
- Biggest drop: 219 spots in 1989 (#729 → #948)
- Debuted 1928
- Peaked 1967 at #115 (2,959 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 49 yrs · run 1941–1989
- Highest: 1 in 558 girls born in 1967 were named Sheri (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.2% of all girls named Sheri (27,327) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | #3,743 (1928) | #4,157 |
| 1930s | 121 | #1,091 (1939) | #1,657 |
| 1940s | 2,035 | #415 (1948) | #633 |
| 1950s | 10,973 | #192 (1959) | #275 |
| 1960s | 27,327 | #115 (1967) | #141 |
| 1970s | 14,397 | #140 (1970) | #206 |
| 1980s | 4,445 | #341 (1980) | #528 |
| 1990s | 816 | #1,008 (1990) | #2,315 |
| 2000s | 200 | #3,864 (2001) | #6,870 |
| 2010s | 99 | #7,144 (2012) | #10,614 |
| 2020s | 39 | #8,989 (2023) | #11,637 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sheri in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 791 of them was named Sheri, which outranked 98.5% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 180,179 of them was named Sheri, which outranked 41.9% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,152Zac10
- #3,152Zacharia10
- #3,152Zebedee10
- #3,344Sheri9
- #3,344Abran9
- #3,344Adaryll9
- #3,344Aimee9
- #3,622Afshin8
- #3,622Aj8
- #3,622Akbar8
Tied with 277 names at #3,344; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.