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Cherryl

Girls' name

Variant of Cheryl

Cherryl has been given to 1,757 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Cherryl, 1993

1 in 754,000

Cherryl over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cherryl: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cheryl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cherryl means

Cherryl is a variant of Cheryl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cherryl is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɛɹ.əl/ for Cherryl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cheryl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,757 girls were recorded with the name Cherryl between 1938 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 105 in 1947; its best national rank was #810 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cherryl?

Cherryl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 362,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cherryl sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cherryl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cherryls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cherryl was born before 1955 — so the typical Cherryl is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,210
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1950s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (672).

Is Cherryl rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (105)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#810
1946

Spellings of Cherryl

Cherryl is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 55.6% against Cherryl's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cherryl is used

Across 1910–2025, Cherryl was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 240,840 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Iowa1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cherryl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cherryl around the world

Where Cherryl ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1961–2012
    #7,553
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1946–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cherryl by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#810
1946
Peak year
1947
105 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
1,757
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cherryl

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cherryl

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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