Cherokee
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 88.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 134 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,572since 1920
Cherokee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #3,786 | 42 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,224 | 51 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #2,125 | 82 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #1,968 | 89 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #1,533 | 118 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #1,265 | 143 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #1,362 | 126 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #1,279 | 135 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #1,261 | 134 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #1,346 | 124 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #1,640 | 92 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #1,688 | 89 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #2,136 | 62 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,658 | 42 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
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| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cherokee! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Cherokee
- 5,241 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #13,208)
- 8,328 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #13,208)
- 8,624 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1995 at #1,261 (134 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,356 girls born in 1998 were named Cherokee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,261 in 1995, was only 1 in 13,123 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.5% of all girls named Cherokee (1,067) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,992 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 15 | #4,622 (1942) | #5,036 |
| 1950s | 36 | #4,202 (1957) | #4,827 |
| 1960s | 21 | #4,723 (1969) | #5,794 |
| 1970s | 147 | #3,095 (1976) | #4,175 |
| 1980s | 199 | #2,658 (1989) | #4,508 |
| 1990s | 1,067 | #1,261 (1995) | #1,626 |
| 2000s | 674 | #1,533 (2000) | #2,915 |
| 2010s | 302 | #3,523 (2016) | #4,772 |
| 2020s | 101 | #4,833 (2021) | #7,640 |
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.
Cherokee in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,985 of them was named Cherokee, which outranked 92.0% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,275Lyndsay136
- #1,275Marjorie136
- #1,275Nautica136
- #1,279Cherokee135
- #1,279Dasha135
- #1,279Joan135
- #1,279Latoya135
- #1,288Dayana134
- #1,288Felisha134
- #1,288Halley134
Tied with 8 names at #1,279; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 82,361 of them was named Cherokee, which outranked 70.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,021Yair24
- #3,021Yancy24
- #3,021Young24
- #3,107Cherokee23
- #3,107Ahron23
- #3,107Alexei23
- #3,107Alistair23
- #3,202Abdulaziz22
- #3,202Abiel22
- #3,202Alanmichael22
Tied with 94 names at #3,107; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.