Cherryl

Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442

Peak · girls
1946 · 104 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,757
since 1938

Cherryl over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Cherryl has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201953peak #809, 1946girls
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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#13,4425
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1990#11,4096
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1987#8,7787
1986#10,9125
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1982#9,2376
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1979#5,75111
1978#7,6497
1977#8,4446
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1975#4,59313
1974#5,36010
1973#4,36213
1972#8,2925
1971#3,94315
1970#3,11021
1969#3,01220
1968#2,05634
1967#2,11731
1966#2,02233
1965#1,71543
1964#1,97536
1963#1,83940
1962#1,47657
1961#1,66646
1960#1,40561
1959#1,41757
1958#1,26071
1957#1,23872
1956#1,07691
1955#1,08786
1954#1,14075
1953#1,42447
1952#1,28555
1951#1,30351
1950#1,12367
1949#1,01877
1948#88197
1947#854105
1946#809104
1945#1,01558
1944#1,01759
1943#1,99419
1942#3,1949
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First appearance
1938

The first year at least five girls were named Cherryl! It came in at #3,181, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1939–1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Cherryl
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
  • Biggest jump: 206 spots in 1946 (#1,015#809)
  • Biggest drop: 137 spots in 1949 (#881#1,018)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1938
  • Peaked 1946 at #809 (104 births)
  • Births halved by 1951, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1946–1948
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,109
  • Highest: 1 in 15,109 girls born in 1946 were named Cherryl (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 361,814 girls born in 1993 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 38.2% of all girls named Cherryl (672) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s8#3,181 (1938)#3,181
1940s539#809 (1946)#1,494
1950s672#1,076 (1956)#1,235
1960s401#1,405 (1960)#1,928
1970s101#3,110 (1970)#5,723
1980s25#8,047 (1983)#9,244
1990s11#11,409 (1990)#12,426

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.

Cherryl in 1953

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#1,424
47 births · 1 in 40,028 girls

Top girls' names in 1953

  1. #1Mary64,389
  2. #2Linda61,281
  3. #3Deborah52,199
  4. #4Patricia51,019
  5. #5Susan44,297
  6. #6Barbara38,473
  7. #7Debra36,856
  8. #8Nancy30,620
  9. #9Karen29,858
  10. #10Pamela25,760
  11. #1,424Cherryl47
More about 1953

girls

1,881,301 girls got a published name in 1953; 1 in 40,028 of them was named Cherryl, which outranked 78.1% of the 6,497 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cherryl
  1. #1,410Sofia48
  2. #1,410Trena48
  3. #1,410Vesta48
  4. #1,424Cherryl47
  5. #1,424Adelina47
  6. #1,424Agatha47
  7. #1,424Armida47
  8. #1,439Allie46
  9. #1,439Annabelle46
  10. #1,439Arla46

Tied with 14 names at #1,424; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1952
Risers
  1. 2,253Enola#3,201#948
  2. 885Lu#1,368#483
  3. 749Joni#1,046#297
  4. 553Brooke#1,351#798
  5. 531Lorri#1,430#899
Fallers
  1. 274Roseanna#808#1,082
  2. 253Georgie#946#1,199
  3. 218Pandora#783#1,001
  4. 204Fonda#822#1,026
  5. 195Brinda#935#1,130

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

See the top 100 for 1953