Entry № 1951 · French origin

Cher Cher — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAIR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Dear (Cher, only artist with #1 hits in seven consecutive decades)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "dear (cher, only artist with #1 hits in seven consecutive decades)".

Cher is the French word for "dear, beloved." Cherilyn Sarkisian (born 1946) — known mononymously as Cher — the American singer-actress whose career spans more than six decades and made her the only solo artist to have a Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit in every decade from the 1960s to the 2020s. Lifetime sales over 100 million records.

Dear (Cher, only artist with #1 hits in seven consecutive decades) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Cher
Transliteration
Cher
Pronunciation
/ ʃɛər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cher stands.

Cher does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chers before her.

Real people
Cher
American singer-actress.
born 1946
In fiction
Cher
Clueless (character named for her).
1995

Names connected to Cher.

The number behind Cher.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cher reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.