Cherilyn
Cherilyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,402 among girls’ names; 2,363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Cherilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 45 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cherilyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cherilyn is “a female given name.”
From Cheryl + -lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cherilyn?
#15,402 among girls’ names, 2025
Cherilyn entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,402 in 2025.
161 babies in 1972, the peak
Cherilyn peaked in 1972, when 161 girls were given it, #824 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,402 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,798 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,105 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,903 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,629 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,860 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,055 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,607 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,393 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 15 | #6,868 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,747 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,106 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,926 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,951 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,140 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,034 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,692 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,518 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,358 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,083 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,691 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,879 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,320 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,864 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,417 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,395 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,901 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,969 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,517 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 121 | #1,026 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 130 | #959 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 112 | #1,055 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,241 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 161 | #824 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,672 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,948 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,888 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,066 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,171 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,844 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,432 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 49 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,032 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherilyn, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,363 Americans ever recorded as Cherilyn. The median Cherilyn alive today is 52 years old; half are between 45 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 2,125 people named Cherilyn (2,121 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 531 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 408 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 122 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15 |
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 Cherilyn born?
The states with the most babies named Cherilyn are California, New York and Texas, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 238 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 101 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Hawaii | 17 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Cherilyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,661 babies since 1880, Cherilyn is the most given (42% 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 Cherilyn
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 Cherilyn and names like it
- Compare Cherilyn and CherlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCherilyn peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Cherilyn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cherilyn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.