What We Know About the Sherry Surname
Sherry began as an Irish family name. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is βthe son of Searrach (colt, flighty)β.
Researching the origin
It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.
Sherry ranked 4,846 in the 2010 US Census, with 7,271 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 5,000 American surnames. Sherry sounds close to Cherry, so it can help to search both.
Heraldry and the Sherry name
A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Sherry, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.
Research your Sherry family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.