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The first name 
Cherrish

Cherrish is a female first name.

Cherrish – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Cherrish in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Cherrish in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Cherrish by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Cherrish ranks at #7,773. That means there are 7,772 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cherrish.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Cherrish

Cherrish -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Cherrish. Girls named Cherrish have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 4,338 Cherrish ranked higher than ever in 1972. By comparison, there have been 97 years in which the first name Cherrish has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1981. In general, parents name their daughters Cherrish only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Cherrish was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Cherrish in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Cherrish continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Cherrish that year, ranking #10,613 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Cherrish, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Cherrish -
at home in California and Michigan

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Cherrish, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Michigan. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Cherrish living in one state or another (if your name is Cherrish and you live outside of California and Michigan, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 932,057 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Cherrish. So, if your name is Cherrish it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Cherrish already makes you special.

Cherrish has 8 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With eight letters, the name Cherrish is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cherrish

If your name is Cherrish and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Cherrish

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cherrish, you can simply say:

Cat

Hat

Elephant

Rocket

Rocket

Igloo

Sun

Hat

This is how the name Cherrish is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Cherrish in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Cherrish

Cherrish

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Cherrish

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Cherrish is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
H
E
R
R
I
S
H

Have you ever waved the name Cherrish

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
H
E
R
R
I
S
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cherrish sounds like this: