The Chery Family Name

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What Chery means

Spellings drift, and Chery is where Cherry drifted for some families. At root, the name means “Cherry grower or seller”.

Chery drops the “r” of Cherry, a simplification that clerks often made. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Chery with 4,027 bearers, at rank 8,232. 3,115 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Chery name at birth. There were 134 such births in the 1890s and 365 in the 1990s.

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