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Cheyne

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Cheyne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
198070 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1971
1,024people given the name
Babies named Cheyne, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

909 boys have been named Cheyne in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 70 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 70 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 47%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 115 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Cheyne
1970s32
1980s428
1990s302
2000s120
2010s27

In 1980, its biggest year

Cheyne was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1980 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1980.

Names that rose and fell with Cheyne

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.