Cher — #13643 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Cher

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,721 babies named Cher between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cher currently holds the #13643 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 235 babies received it in a single year. Cher is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 110 additional births since 1981.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cher performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 964 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Cher shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 181 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Cher in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cher 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 1,721 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.