Quick answer
Sherry is a girl name meaning "darling".
Meaning and history
Probably inspired by the French word chérie meaning "darling" or the English word sherry, a type of fortified wine named from the Spanish town of Jerez. This name came into popular use during the 1920s, inspired by other similar-sounding names and by Collette's novels Chéri (1920, English translation 1929) and The Last of Chéri (1926, English translation 1932), in which it is a masculine name. This also coincides with an Irish surname (an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac Searraigh ), derived from the byname Searrach meaning "foal".
Notes and context
Usage: english