Cherry is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cherry is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cherry. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cherry is #3,819 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cherry.
You may not know anyone named Cherry, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to women and girls named Cherry. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Cherry living in one state or another. If your name is Cherry and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Mississippi, which has the most people named Cherry relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,923 women and girls their names before you hear Cherry as an answer just once.
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 six letters, the name Cherry is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.
If your name is Cherry 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cherry, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cherry
Cherry
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
E
R
R
Y
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
Y
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. Cherry sounds like this:
