Given name
Cherine
“sweet”
Cherine is a feminine given name from Persian, meaning “sweet.”
Original Persianشیرین
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1949. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cherine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 127
- 0 boys · 127 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 308 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cherine’s family of names
In English usage, Cherine has a conventional equivalent in the Azerbaijani form Şirin. In English usage, Cherine has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form شِيرِين. In English usage, Cherine has a conventional equivalent in the Persian form شیرین.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cherine
- Cherine AbdellaouiAlgerian Paralympic judokaborn 1998
- Cherine AndersonJamaican singerborn 1982
- ChérineBelgian singer (born 1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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