Cheryll

Where Cheryll comes from

Cheryll hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Cheryll Sotheran born
    New Zealand curator
  3. 1946
    Cheryll Heinze born
    American politician
  4. 1946
    Peak, #743
    120 babies named Cheryll — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,464.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cheryll Heinze · American politician, 1946–2012
  • Cheryll Sotheran · New Zealand curator, 1945–2017

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.