Cherie
Cherie is an English female given name. It comes from the French chérie, meaning darling. It has also been used as a diminutive of names starting with or containing the sound Cher- or Sher- such as Cherilyn, Cheryl, Sharon, or Sherilyn for females. The name was well-used for girls in North America from the mid-1920s through the early 1990s and was at the height of popularity between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s. Spelling variants of the name such as Cherry, Sharee, Shari, Sheree, Sherie, Sherrey, Sherri, Sherrie, and Sherry were in vogue during the same time period.
Notable people with the name or stage name include:
- Cherie, one of the stage names of French singer Cyndi Almouzni
- Cherie Bambury, Australian cricket player
- Cherie Bennett, American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer and television writer
- Cherie Berry, American politician from North Carolina
- Cherie Blair, known professionally as Cherie Booth, British barrister, wife of former prime minister Tony Blair
- Cherie Buckner-Webb, American politician from Idaho
- Cherie Burton, Australian politician
- Cherie Chung, Hong Kong film actress
- Cherie Currie, American musician, singer, songwriter, actress and artist
- Cherie de Boer, accordionist, half of the Dutch duo Accordéon Mélancolique
- Cherie DeCastro, one of The DeCastro Sisters, a female singing trio
- Cherie Dimaline, Canadian Métis writer
- Cherie Ditcham, Australian actress and model
- Cherie Gallagher, Australian basketball player
- Cherie Gardiner, 2009 Miss Northern Ireland
- Cherie Gil, Filipino actress
- Cherie Johnson, American film and television actress
- Cherie Kagan, American professor in nanotechnology
- Cherie Kluesing, American landscape architect, designer, and educator
- Cherie Lash Rhoades, Northern Paiute tribe member in California, perpetrator of a 2014 shooting
- Cherie Lunghi, English film, television and theatre actress
- Cherie Mercado, Filipina broadcast journalist
- Cherie Nowlan, Australian film and television director
- Cherie Piper, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cherie Priest, American novelist and blogger
- Cherie Roberts, American model and photographer
- Cherie Templer, New Zealand painter
- Cherie Wilkerson, American writer
- Cherie Witter, American model and Playboy Playmate