Entry № 9560 · Spanish origin

Sherry Sherry — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Beloved (Sherry Lansing, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "beloved (sherry lansing, first woman to head a major hollywood studio)".

Sherry is the English word for the fortified wine from Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain — also a 20th-century American diminutive of Sharon, Cheryl, or the French chérie (beloved). Sherry Stringfield — American actress (ER).

Beloved (Sherry Lansing, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Sherry
Transliteration
Sherry
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɛr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sherry stands.

Sherry 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.

Sherrys before her.

Real people
Sherry Lansing
First woman to head a major Hollywood studio.
born 1944
Sherry Stringfield
American actress.
born 1967
In fiction
Sherry
Four Seasons' Sherry.
1962

Names connected to Sherry.

The number behind Sherry.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sherry reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.