Chera

Last seen for girls in 1999 at #8,223

Peak · girls
1973 · 35 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
468
since 1957

Chera over time

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Rank among girls' names. Chera has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #2,223, 1973girls
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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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1993#10,5887
1992#9,4918
1991#8,5889
1990#6,46513
1989#8,0379
1988#7,11110
1987#4,85716
1986#3,75722
1985#4,28218
1984#3,87420
1983#4,88414
1982#3,78021
1981#4,34417
1980#4,74315
1979#2,67133
1978#3,63720
1977#4,23516
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1975#3,25921
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1973#2,22335
1972#2,39830
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1970#4,76111
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1968#5,6427
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five girls were named Chera! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Chera
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1999
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 1973 at #2,223 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 1976, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 41,663
  • Highest: 1 in 41,663 girls born in 1973 were named Chera (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 161,257 girls born in 1999 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 46.8% of all girls named Chera (219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,086 (1957)#6,086
1960s34#3,958 (1969)#5,083
1970s219#2,223 (1973)#3,407
1980s162#3,757 (1986)#4,967
1990s48#6,465 (1990)#8,671

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.

Chera in 1957

girls
#6,086
5 births · 1 in 408,970 girls

Top girls' names in 1957

  1. #1Mary61,102
  2. #2Susan45,954
  3. #3Linda44,517
  4. #4Debra42,728
  5. #5Karen40,591
  6. #6Deborah40,096
  7. #7Cynthia39,340
  8. #8Patricia39,283
  9. #9Barbara29,692
  10. #10Donna28,042
  11. #6,086Chera5
More about 1957

girls

2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 408,970 of them was named Chera, which outranked 13.2% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chera
  1. #5,377Zo6
  2. #5,377Zsazsa6
  3. #5,377Zula6
  4. #6,086Chera5
  5. #6,086Adrean5
  6. #6,086Agustina5
  7. #6,086Aisha5

Tied with 929 names at #6,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. 2,944Tammi#3,696#752
  2. 1,310Tamela#2,151#841
  3. 1,298Tammie#1,662#364
  4. 993Tia#1,968#975
  5. 676Tamera#1,287#611
Fallers
  1. 423Corliss#878#1,301
  2. 399Glynis#977#1,376
  3. 367Merrie#977#1,344
  4. 303Taryn#935#1,238
  5. 291Glendora#963#1,254

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

See the top 100 for 1957