Cheryl
Only 36 Polish women carry it, and no girls have been given it since 2000, so meeting one would stick in memory. The root is Greek, meaning dear or loved.
Cheryl Pronunciation
Cheryl is pronounced KHE-rihl (/ˈxɛrɨl/).
What Cheryl means
Where Cheryl comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cheryl reached English speakers through a Greek root carrying the sense of beloved, dear. The name sits firmly in the English-speaking world, though it grew there only in the twentieth century, not before.
Records show Cheryl rising on British and American lists through the 1940s and 1950s. It reached its highest American rank in 1958, at number thirty-four. Cheryl Ladd, the American actress of that later era, put the name on screen. Cheryl Cole, the English singer, carried it to a younger set of listeners. Popularity has cooled since then. The name reads now as dated.
For a Polish reader it lands as foreign, spelled out slowly on a form at the urząd. There is no Polish diminutive to soften it, and no name-day to mark. What survives every crossing is the Greek sense underneath: beloved, dear.
How many people are named Cheryl
1 in 626218 women in Poland is named Cheryl. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6563 among female names.
Cheryl as a middle name
Cheryl is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3207th, between Cherubina (6) and Chinonye (6).
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#3205 Cherie6
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#3206 Cherubina6
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#3207 Cheryl6
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#3208 Chinonye6
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#3209 Christy6