Cherryl

Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442

Peak · girls
1946 · 104 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,757
since 1938

Cherryl over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Cherryl has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #809, 1946girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1993#13,4425
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1986#10,9125
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1982#9,2376
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1979#5,75111
1978#7,6497
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1974#5,36010
1973#4,36213
1972#8,2925
1971#3,94315
1970#3,11021
1969#3,01220
1968#2,05634
1967#2,11731
1966#2,02233
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1960#1,40561
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1956#1,07691
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1953#1,42447
1952#1,28555
1951#1,30351
1950#1,12367
1949#1,01877
1948#88197
1947#854105
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1945#1,01558
1944#1,01759
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First appearance
1938

The first year at least five girls were named Cherryl! It came in at #3,181, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1939–1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Cherryl is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more girls named Cherryl in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Cherryl
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
  • Biggest jump: 206 spots in 1946 (#1,015 → #809)
  • Biggest drop: 137 spots in 1949 (#881 → #1,018)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1938
  • Peaked 1946 at #809 (104 births)
  • Births halved by 1951, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1946–1948
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,109
  • Highest: 1 in 15,109 girls born in 1946 were named Cherryl (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 361,814 girls born in 1993 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 38.2% of all girls named Cherryl (672) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s8#3,181 (1938)#3,181
1940s539#809 (1946)#1,494
1950s672#1,076 (1956)#1,235
1960s401#1,405 (1960)#1,928
1970s101#3,110 (1970)#5,723
1980s25#8,047 (1983)#9,244
1990s11#11,409 (1990)#12,426

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.

Cherryl in 1963

girls
#1,839
40 births · 1 in 48,188 girls

Top girls' names in 1963

  1. #1Lisa56,047
  2. #2Mary41,546
  3. #3Susan33,991
  4. #4Karen32,492
  5. #5Linda27,727
  6. #6Donna25,405
  7. #7Patricia25,374
  8. #8Lori23,899
  9. #9Sandra21,621
  10. #10Cynthia21,589
  11. #1,839Cherryl40
More about 1963

girls

1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 48,188 of them was named Cherryl, which outranked 76.0% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cherryl
  1. #1,815Yevette41
  2. #1,815Zella41
  3. #1,815Zelma41
  4. #1,839Cherryl40
  5. #1,839Adina40
  6. #1,839Arletha40
  7. #1,839Carlyn40
  8. #1,867Alba39
  9. #1,867Alvina39
  10. #1,867Armida39

Tied with 27 names at #1,839; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 631Zena#1,323 → #692
  2. ↑ 623Zina#992 → #369
  3. ↑ 540Trisha#1,020 → #480
  4. ↑ 457Shirl#1,304 → #847
  5. ↑ 396Glynis#992 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,195Marnita#727 → #1,922
  2. ↓ 255Velvet#623 → #878
  3. ↓ 235Delphine#904 → #1,139
  4. ↓ 224Rosita#934 → #1,158
  5. ↓ 197Lindy#885 → #1,082

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963 →