Cherokee
Cherokee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1998143 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1920
- 2,903people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,566 girls have been named Cherokee in the United States since 1920, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 143 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 42%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 337 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cherokee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1940s | 15 | |
| 1950s | 36 | |
| 1960s | 21 | |
| 1970s | 147 | |
| 1980s | 199 | |
| 1990s | 1,067 | |
| 2000s | 674 | |
| 2010s | 302 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Cherokee was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Cherokee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keanapeak 1995
- Michaellapeak 1997
- Michaelapeak 1997
- Destinepeak 1998
- Hayleypeak 1993
- Keannapeak 1995
- Sierrapeak 1998
- Destiniepeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.