Cherish
#1,373 for girls in 2025, 160 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 461 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,352since 1966
Cherish over time
Rank among girls' names. Cherish has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,373 | 160 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 |
| 2023 | #1,595 | 131 |
| 2022 | #1,540 | 139 |
| 2021 | #1,206 | 199 |
| 2020 | #1,105 | 221 |
| 2019 | #1,025 | 251 |
| 2018 | #1,057 | 242 |
| 2017 | #1,005 | 258 |
| 2016 | #971 | 277 |
| 2015 | #937 | 289 |
| 2014 | #801 | 350 |
| 2013 | #780 | 348 |
| 2012 | #766 | 360 |
| 2011 | #716 | 386 |
| 2010 | #751 | 369 |
| 2009 | #692 | 422 |
| 2008 | #732 | 407 |
| 2007 | #643 | 461 |
| 2006 | #743 | 371 |
| 2005 | #1,134 | 206 |
| 2004 | #1,015 | 232 |
| 2003 | #1,100 | 200 |
| 2002 | #1,109 | 189 |
| 2001 | #1,084 | 196 |
| 2000 | #1,127 | 181 |
| 1999 | #1,204 | 159 |
| 1998 | #1,195 | 155 |
| 1997 | #1,061 | 179 |
| 1996 | #1,164 | 156 |
| 1995 | #1,096 | 162 |
| 1994 | #1,224 | 143 |
| 1993 | #1,013 | 183 |
| 1992 | #1,076 | 168 |
| 1991 | #1,044 | 175 |
| 1990 | #994 | 184 |
| 1989 | #842 | 223 |
| 1988 | #885 | 199 |
| 1987 | #744 | 243 |
| 1986 | #692 | 263 |
| 1985 | #846 | 192 |
| 1984 | #766 | 210 |
| 1983 | #929 | 160 |
| 1982 | #1,308 | 96 |
| 1981 | #1,596 | 73 |
| 1980 | #1,749 | 63 |
| 1979 | #1,517 | 77 |
| 1978 | #1,386 | 84 |
| 1977 | #1,191 | 103 |
| 1976 | #1,225 | 92 |
| 1975 | #1,119 | 104 |
| 1974 | #938 | 132 |
| 1973 | #1,226 | 86 |
| 1972 | #1,236 | 85 |
| 1971 | #1,546 | 63 |
| 1970 | #2,043 | 40 |
| 1969 | #1,871 | 44 |
| 1968 | #2,296 | 28 |
| 1967 | #2,492 | 24 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cherish! It came in at #3,959, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Cherish is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#547 · 1 in 4,644
- California#1,277 · 1 in 13,939
- New York#1,604 · 1 in 19,665
- Texas#1,629 · 1 in 20,678
Best ever in a state: #88 in Hawaii, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #547 | 6 | 1 in 4,644 |
| California | #1,277 | 11 | 1 in 13,939 |
| New York | #1,604 | 5 | 1 in 19,665 |
| Texas | #1,629 | 5 | 1 in 20,678 |
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See more about Cherish
- 99 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,373)
- 268 spots since 2020 (#1,105 → #1,373)
- 436 spots since 2015 (#937 → #1,373)
- Biggest jump: 391 spots in 2006 (#1,134 → #743)
- Biggest drop: 181 spots in 1975 (#938 → #1,119)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2007 at #643 (461 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2016
- Highest: 1 in 4,171 girls born in 2007 were named Cherish (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,045 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 27.6% of all girls named Cherish (3,130) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 107 | #1,871 (1969) | #2,655 |
| 1970s | 866 | #938 (1974) | #1,343 |
| 1980s | 1,722 | #692 (1986) | #1,036 |
| 1990s | 1,664 | #994 (1990) | #1,107 |
| 2000s | 2,865 | #643 (2007) | #938 |
| 2010s | 3,130 | #716 (2011) | #881 |
| 2020s | 998 | #1,105 (2020) | #1,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cherish in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 18,236 of them was named Cherish, which outranked 87.9% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,374Nelly85
- #1,374Renea85
- #1,374Shenita85
- #1,386Cherish84
- #1,386Andrew84
- #1,386Dallas84
- #1,386Edwina84
- #1,397Chelsey83
- #1,397Cindi83
- #1,397Corine83
Tied with 10 names at #1,386; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.