“Cheri, Cheri Lady” is a hit song by the German pop duo Modern Talking. Released in 1985, it reached #1 in Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland.
Cheri Blauwet is an American physician and Paralympic wheelchair racer. She is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Sports Medicine, is Assistant Professor of PM&R at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. She has competed at the Paralympic level in events ranging from the 100 meters to the marathon.
Cheri Elliott is an American former champion bicycle motocross (BMX) racer in the 1980s, and a champion Downhill and Slalom mountain bike racer in the 1990s and early 2000s. She was the first female racer inducted into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame in 1989, and the first female BMX racer inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2008.
I am French and I'm pretty definite that this is grammatically masculine. Cherie would be more appropriate for a girl. Still, it's kind of weird as a name. We have a number of princes in our fairy tales named Cheri, but we don't actually use it as a name.
This spelling is strange. It looks like "cherry" misspelled, and besides, it's a French masculine word. If you like the French word as a name so much, just spell it Cherie (which is still corny, but a little less so).
The name Cheri, spelled C- h- e- r- I is not feminine, it is masculine. It essentially means darling (boy, man). While the name Cherie is feminine and means darling (girl, woman).