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.
Where Sheri is popular in 1940
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#679 · 1 in 9,985
Best ever in a state: #55 in Utah, 1963.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #679 | 5 | 1 in 9,985 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 31,765 of them was named Sheri, which outranked 75.8% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,203Sandi37
- #1,203Thomasine37
- #1,203Vita37
- #1,218Sheri36
- #1,218Albert36
- #1,218Altha36
- #1,218Anastasia36
- #1,242Bettylou35
- #1,242Clarine35
- #1,242Collette35
Tied with 23 names at #1,218; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.