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How popular is the name Cherry?
Births per year, rank history and how many Cherries are alive today.
Cherry (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 894th in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2011, when 69 babies were given the name, the 583rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1575 in 2023 before climbing back to the 894th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Cherry you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Cherries born in England and Wales are between 10 and 24, and there are at least 990 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Cherry - on average, only one in every 319 such rooms contains a Cherry.
How many babies are named Cherry each year?
Where does Cherry rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Cherry most popular?
Cherry peaked in 2011, when 69 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Cherry?
At least 990 people named Cherry born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Cherry?
Most living Cherries are between 10 and 24; the most common age is about 15.
Is Cherry becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.