Cheray — girls' name

What the Data Says About Cheray

The Social Security Administration has registered 128 babies named Cheray between 1964 and 1998, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cheray currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheray performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cheray shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cheray in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheray 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 128 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.