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Sherice vs Sherri

American parents have registered 83,843 Sherris since 1880, against 1,506 Sherices. Sherri is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sherice against Sherri, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sherice Sherri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Sherri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Sherice had 26 and Sherri had 49.

Side by side

  Sherice Sherri
Total US births 1,50683,843
Most in one year 595,472
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 1,40074,000
Median age today 4560
Peak year 19801963
Best rank 1,833rd girls78th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,362nd
First recorded 19581924
Girls / boys 1,506 / 083,667 / 176

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sherris alive today are over 60; half the Sherices are over 45. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sherice Sherri
England and Wales 2528

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sherice and Sherri.