Name meaning & stats
Cheri
Cheri means “darling”. 35,878 US babies since 1940, peak 1960.
What it means
“darling”
Well documented
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1960
35,878 US babies were named Cheri between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Cheri (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 43% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1960)