Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Sherry
/SHAIR · ee/
Meaning
“Darling”
American feminine name from French Chérie (darling) or from the Spanish city Jerez via the wine sherry; either way it captured a breezy mid-century American charm.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the US in the 1950s-60s; feels like a cocktail lounge in 1962, not unpleasantly so.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in the US from the late 1950s through the 1960s; declining steadily since the 1970s.