Cheney
Cheney was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 333 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cheney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cheney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,328, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2001, the peak
Cheney peaked in 2001, when 31 babies were given it (22 girls, #5,221 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,496 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,533 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #10,961 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,328 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,365 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #11,295 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,198 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,655 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,011 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,384 | 6 | #10,171 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #10,606 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,396 | 8 | #7,759 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,221 | 9 | #7,010 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,297 | 5 | #10,628 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,360 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,159 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,747 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,071 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,080 | 5 | #9,011 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,691 | 6 | #7,777 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,041 | 8 | #6,210 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,490 | 12 | #4,521 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,420 | 5 | #8,314 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,103 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,057 | 6 | #6,212 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,760 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,683 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,683 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,423 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,666 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,414 | 6 | #5,024 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,333 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,563 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cheney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 333 Americans recorded as Cheney, 63% are girls and 37% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cheney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cheney, and how old are they?
An estimated 323 Americans named Cheney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 491 people named Cheney (295 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,524 babies since 1880, Cheney is the second most given (13% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cheney
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cheney and names like it
- Compare Cheney and ChenoaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCheney peaked in 2001.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Cheney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cheney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.