Cheney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cheney

The Social Security Administration has registered 209 babies named Cheney between 1976 and 2011, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cheney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Cheney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 124 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheney performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cheney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 209 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.