Cheyenne

#920 for girls in 2025, 285 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 96.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
1996 · 4,866 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
7 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
70,732
since 1946

Cheyenne over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201946peak #68, 1996girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#920285—
2024#870311#9,8947
2023#787358#10,8216
2022#686427#7,76810
2021#660451—
2020#579509#10,6056
2019#496632#7,17311
2018#465678—
2017#429741#8,8408
2016#411809#12,1855
2015#346952#7,06611
2014#360911#9,6427
2013#330983#8,1189
2012#3181,019#8,1589
2011#2741,159#7,50210
2010#2291,374#5,47816
2009#1861,771#6,09514
2008#1602,111#5,24917
2007#1472,366#5,21017
2006#1702,077#4,52020
2005#1711,966#4,82417
2004#1492,190#2,64340
2003#1342,475#2,99332
2002#1272,712#2,47040
2001#1192,875#2,21746
2000#993,367#2,08748
1999#843,779#1,96649
1998#724,327#1,62264
1997#684,764#1,35082
1996#684,866#1,101109
1995#864,088#1,005122
1994#993,307#1,041114
1993#1352,372#1,047111
1992#1691,795#1,25581
1991#1751,718#972120
1990#331833#1,56453
1989#586373#1,38263
1988#635314#1,61844
1987#664281#1,53446
1986#745236#1,47646
1985#894178#1,59440
1984#867175#1,55639
1983#787202#1,22256
1982#824190#1,24256
1981#912164#1,24654
1980#871176#1,18759
1979#1,061130#1,16960
1978#1,117116#1,14959
1977#1,153109#1,05467
1976#1,009124#1,16354
1975#1,27887#1,04263
1974#1,25287#1,12453
1973#1,69053#1,04560
1972#1,69852#1,26243
1971#2,13738#1,41536
1970#2,52229#1,74325
1969#2,91721#2,13016
1968#3,78913#2,44512
1967#6,8045#1,60923
1966#5,2737#1,81418
1965#4,4949#1,91817
1964#6,0096#2,20514
1963#4,8968#2,53911
1962#5,2937#2,27913
1961—#1,94818
1960#5,1687#1,52328
1959#4,6258#1,91618
1958#6,1035#1,18642
1957#3,69611#89771
1956#2,45321#1,21839
1955#2,97115#3,8865
1954#2,51919—
1953#2,69916#3,4256
1952#2,67116—
1951#2,93713#3,3646
1950#3,23511—
1949#2,62015#3,6905
1948#4,2057—
1947#2,63715—
1946#4,9605—
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First appearance
1946

The first year at least five girls were named Cheyenne! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1961, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Cheyenne is popular in 1946

No state had 5 or more girls named Cheyenne in 1946, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Cheyenne
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 50 spots since 2024 (#870 → #920)
  • 341 spots since 2020 (#579 → #920)
  • 574 spots since 2015 (#346 → #920)
  • Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1990 (#586 → #331)
  • Biggest drop: 101 spots in 2023 (#686 → #787)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1946
  • Peaked 1996 at #68 (4,866 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 7 yrs · run 1994–2000
  • Top 1,000: 46 yrs · run 1980–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 360
  • Highest: 1 in 360 girls born in 1996 were named Cheyenne (0.28%)
  • Latest: 1 in 5,640 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 45.0% of all girls named Cheyenne (31,849) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s42#2,620 (1949)#3,606
1950s135#2,453 (1956)#3,391
1960s83#2,917 (1969)#4,960
1970s825#1,009 (1976)#1,492
1980s2,289#586 (1989)#779
1990s31,849#68 (1996)#129
2000s23,910#99 (2000)#146
2010s9,258#229 (2010)#366
2020s2,341#579 (2020)#750

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.

Cheyenne in 1946

girls
#4,960
5 births · 1 in 314,261 girls

Top girls' names in 1946

  1. #1Mary67,471
  2. #2Linda52,710
  3. #3Patricia46,297
  4. #4Barbara45,126
  5. #5Carol34,284
  6. #6Sandra31,692
  7. #7Nancy28,345
  8. #8Susan28,267
  9. #9Sharon27,824
  10. #10Judith22,310
  11. #4,960Cheyenne5
More about 1946

girls

1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 314,261 of them was named Cheyenne, which outranked 12.8% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cheyenne
  1. #4,417Zelia6
  2. #4,417Zenora6
  3. #4,417Zondra6
  4. #4,960Cheyenne5
  5. #4,960Adine5
  6. #4,960Adlene5
  7. #4,960Adra5

Tied with 726 names at #4,960; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1945
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,830Jacalyn#2,742 → #912
  2. ↑ 914Kimberly#1,621 → #707
  3. ↑ 615Suzette#1,032 → #417
  4. ↑ 538Randi#1,356 → #818
  5. ↑ 528Dayle#1,356 → #828
Fallers
  1. ↓ 335Oma#941 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 324Iola#824 → #1,148
  3. ↓ 324Artie#994 → #1,318
  4. ↓ 303Eartha#954 → #1,257
  5. ↓ 301Willia#830 → #1,131

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

See the top 100 for 1946 →