Cheryll
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #8,761
- Peak · girls
- 1946 · 120 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,628since 1934
Cheryll over time
Rank among girls' names. Cheryll has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
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| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #2,296 | 31 |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 |
| 1967 | #1,881 | 39 |
| 1966 | #1,621 | 48 |
| 1965 | #1,561 | 51 |
| 1964 | #1,497 | 57 |
| 1963 | #1,464 | 58 |
| 1962 | #1,304 | 72 |
| 1961 | #1,279 | 75 |
| 1960 | #1,328 | 69 |
| 1959 | #993 | 113 |
| 1958 | #985 | 111 |
| 1957 | #936 | 121 |
| 1956 | #826 | 143 |
| 1955 | #746 | 162 |
| 1954 | #1,000 | 95 |
| 1953 | #927 | 104 |
| 1952 | #906 | 104 |
| 1951 | #921 | 99 |
| 1950 | #978 | 86 |
| 1949 | #948 | 88 |
| 1948 | #876 | 99 |
| 1947 | #815 | 115 |
| 1946 | #743 | 120 |
| 1945 | #758 | 98 |
| 1944 | #925 | 69 |
| 1943 | #1,275 | 41 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cheryll! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1934–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cheryll is popular in 1961
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#740 · 1 in 13,881
- New York#1,098 · 1 in 23,996
- California#1,320 · 1 in 25,018
Best ever in a state: #182 in Montana, 1946.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #740 | 8 | 1 in 13,881 |
| New York | #1,098 | 7 | 1 in 23,996 |
| California | #1,320 | 7 | 1 in 25,018 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cheryll
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1989
- Biggest jump: 350 spots in 1944 (#1,275 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 335 spots in 1960 (#993 → #1,328)
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1946 at #743 (120 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1944–1959
- Highest: 1 in 12,070 girls born in 1955 were named Cheryll (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 230,444 girls born in 1989 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #743 in 1946, was only 1 in 13,094 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.3% of all girls named Cheryll (1,138) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 22 | #2,730 (1938) | #3,482 |
| 1940s | 662 | #743 (1946) | #1,456 |
| 1950s | 1,138 | #746 (1955) | #922 |
| 1960s | 541 | #1,279 (1961) | #1,609 |
| 1970s | 189 | #2,450 (1970) | #3,933 |
| 1980s | 76 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,910 |
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.
Cheryll in 1961
Top girls' names in 1961
More about 1961
girls
2,018,495 girls got a published name in 1961; 1 in 26,913 of them was named Cheryll, which outranked 83.0% of the 7,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,268Kimber76
- #1,268Lavonda76
- #1,268Ronald76
- #1,279Cheryll75
- #1,279Awilda75
- #1,279Erlinda75
- #1,279Jeanene75
- #1,288Coreen74
- #1,288Elda74
- #1,288Estela74
Tied with 8 names at #1,279; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.