Cherice
Cherice was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 1,137 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Cherice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cherice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,540, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1975, the peak
Cherice peaked in 1975, when 53 girls were given it, #1,757 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #14,540 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,672 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,928 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,871 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,771 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,480 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,137 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,139 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,033 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,854 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 25 | #4,103 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,833 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,532 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,482 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,371 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,858 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,426 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,287 | 25.6 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,387 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,573 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,191 | 27.2 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,344 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,444 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,392 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,116 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,091 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,344 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,757 | 36.4 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,305 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,229 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,806 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,882 | 27.6 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,126 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,215 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,552 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,125 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,055 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,777 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,394 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,055 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,311 | 5.1 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,497 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,689 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,506 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,896 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,960 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherice, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,137 Americans ever recorded as Cherice. The median Cherice alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 978 people named Cherice (978 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,092 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 56 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 497 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 481 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 41 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Cherice born?
The states with the most babies named Cherice are California, New York and Illinois, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 143 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Cherice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cherice is most over-represented in California: since 1955 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cherice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,555 babies since 1880, Cherice is the most given (73% 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 Cherice
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 Cherice and names like it
- Compare Cherice and CherikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCherice peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherice since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Cherice.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cherice alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.