Cheryl with a ‘ch’ not ‘ash’ sound

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Posting for a friend who asked my opinion.

I’ve never considered it before, but I am surprised to say I love it

I’m talking about teens who were teens at the same time as me in the 80s. So they would have been born 1970 onwards. Jackie was most certainly still popular as a name in London among my age bracket. Jackie magazine didn’t close until the 90s afair.

Look at the ONS stats for those names and they were past their peak.
Jackie magazine was started in the mid 1960s.

If I were to launch a magazine aimed at an average young teen, I might pick a name that would be an average young teen's name.

I find the Jackie one odd as I don't know any Jackies under 50. They all seem middle age - retirement age names.

i understand the diffence between cherry and sherry but for the life of me i can't pronounce Cheryl any other way than Sheryl. i'd have to view it as Churyl.

i'm usually very good with names and this is a tongue twister i can't "do".

The triumvirate of UK pop culture Cheryls: Cheryl Cole, Cheryl from The Royle Family, and Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz fame, are all SH Cheryls.

CH Cheryl sounds clunky to me.

As pp mention, it very much depends on where you live as it is difficult to fight pronunciation - in my area of Wales, it seems to be Cheryl with a "CH" but elsewhere I have met "Sheryl's". Cherry is gorgeous but I'd be slightly worried about cherry popping jokes from boys once she became a teenager - shame though.

I knew a "Ch-eryl" She was forever correcting people but I don’t think it bothered her

Another Welsh 70/80s child, definitely CHeryl...

My cousin was Cheryl, pronounced 'CH' and I've never ever heard of it pronounced with a 'SH' sound. Bizarre.....

@KirstenBlest

Look at the ONS stats for those names and they were past their peak. Jackie magazine was started in the mid 1960s.

If I were to launch a magazine aimed at an average young teen, I might pick a name that would be an average young teen's name.

What point are you trying to make exactly? They were still popular when I was a teen and there were a lot of them around, thus to me Cheryl and the others I mentioned are 80s names.

If you're older and you associate them with earlier demographics so what?

@KirstenBlest

I find the Jackie one odd as I don't know any Jackies under 50. They all seem middle age - retirement age names.

Those Jackies were not 50 in the 80s!

This is brilliant, hilarious:

They are not 1970s names. They are names that were given to babies in the 1950s and 60s.

The names might still be given but were already dated.

They compare with names like Ryan or Molly now, still given but not '2021 names'.

Cheryl seems dated to me.

They were also given to babies in the 70s who were teens in the 80s 😂

I think it’s time to move on.

Please do @TatianaBis.

You’re the one preoccupied with something I said pages ago. I mean ONS 🤣

@TatianaBis

I would always say Cheryl.

It’s a very 80s name - Sharon, Tracy, Jackie, Cheryl, Fay and Kelly would be friends.

I think Cheryl would more likely be friends with Michelle, Kerry, Leanne, Joanne, Amanda and, of course, Louise.

I don't know what is going on here! Is there a different pronunciation to Cheryl than Cheryl Cole?! And is Cherry not like the fruit??

I don't care how you pronounce it, it's awful.

I would naturally pronounce it with the Ch sound.

I'd only say Sheryl if it was spelled that way. As in Sheryl Crow.

It feels a little old fashioned.

My DSIL is called Cheryle. No pronounced sh but ch like cherry.

As in it rhymes with Beryl?

No, hate it.

It’s the pisstake version I always called my old colleague Cheryl

I have a friend who pronounces hers as ch. Like cherry. She will repeat her name but doesn't correct people.

Ooh I never heard it pronounced with a CH sound. DSIL is a ‘SH’ Cheryl, mid fifties, from Wales. Shortens to Cher. I did ask DH and he said that maybe his DGM pronounced it CHeryl but he wasn’t sure.