Sherry

Where Sherry comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sherry.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Sherry through the years
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #2,208 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Sherry Turkle born
    American social scientist and psychologist
  3. 1962
    Peak, #48
    9,223 babies named Sherry, the most in any year.
  4. 1967
    Sherry Stringfield born
    American actress
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #70.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
Namesakes
  • Sherry Stringfield · American actress, born 1967
  • Sherry Turkle · American social scientist and psychologist, born 1948
  • Sherry Lansing · American film studio executive and actress, born 1944
  • Sherry Rehman · Pakistani politician and diplomat, born 1960
  • Sherry Jackson · American actress, born 1942

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.