Girl · English (modern coinage)
Cheryl
Say it: SHAIR-ul
Meaning
A 20th-century coinage, probably from Cherie (French chérie 'darling') with the ending -yl, perhaps influenced by Beryl.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Unknown before the 1920s, it peaked in the US in the late 1940s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1950s
In the United States
- 440,304 babies given this name since 1909
- At its height in 1958, about 1 in 83 girls
- 28 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Sheryl, Cheryle
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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