Cheyenne
Cheyenne is ranked 867th among girls in 2024 (310 births). Its best rank was 68th, in 1996–1997.
- Rank in 2024
- #867down 79 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3100.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19964,866 births
- Best rank
- #68first in 1996
- Since 1946
- 73,135people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,439 girls have been named Cheyenne in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 4,866 births — 0.28% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 360 → 867).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 45%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,696 boys have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cheyenne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 42 | |
| 1950s | 135 | |
| 1960s | 83 | |
| 1970s | 825 | |
| 1980s | 2,289 | |
| 1990s | 31,850 | |
| 2000s | 23,909 | |
| 2010s | 9,256 | |
| 2020s | 2,050 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Cheyenne was the 68th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Cheyenne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bailiepeak 1997
- Cheyannapeak 1996
- Destineepeak 1999
- Micaylapeak 1997
- Shiannepeak 1997
- Cheyannepeak 1999
- Mickaylapeak 1999
- Lexuspeak 1996
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.