Cherise
Cherise was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 4,484 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,220 Americans named Cherise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 37 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cherise mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cherise is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cherise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,760, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
151 babies in 1971, the peak
Cherise peaked in 1971, when 151 girls were given it, #882 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,760 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,038 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,759 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,882 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,293 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,014 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,862 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,556 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,522 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,399 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #10,964 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,919 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,920 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,320 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,961 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,362 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,293 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,337 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,176 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,748 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,664 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,234 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,375 | 31.4 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,420 | 30.1 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,292 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 100 | #1,554 | 55.3 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,498 | 56.9 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,500 | 54.9 |
| 1990 | 126 | #1,288 | 66.4 |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,166 | 75.9 |
| 1988 | 132 | #1,159 | 74.1 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,164 | 72.5 |
| 1986 | 131 | #1,117 | 76.4 |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,025 | 85.4 |
| 1984 | 147 | #980 | 87.3 |
| 1983 | 117 | #1,138 | 70.0 |
| 1982 | 125 | #1,126 | 73.8 |
| 1981 | 135 | #1,055 | 80.9 |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,141 | 71.7 |
| 1979 | 138 | #1,020 | 86.0 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,096 | 77.7 |
| 1977 | 102 | #1,200 | 66.5 |
| 1976 | 122 | #1,022 | 83.3 |
| 1975 | 121 | #1,006 | 83.0 |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,015 | 80.4 |
| 1973 | 121 | #983 | 83.0 |
| 1972 | 122 | #985 | 80.2 |
| 1971 | 151 | #882 | 90.8 |
| 1970 | 147 | #896 | 84.1 |
| 1969 | 138 | #898 | 81.8 |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,134 | 54.3 |
| 1967 | 109 | #978 | 66.0 |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,088 | 55.0 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,395 | 35.1 |
| 1964 | 73 | #1,312 | 38.5 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,407 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,458 | 29.5 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,612 | 24.3 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,984 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,723 | 20.3 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,765 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,253 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,638 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,113 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,794 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,945 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,590 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,827 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,457 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,299 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,352 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,425 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherise, and how old are they?
4,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 4,484 Americans ever recorded as Cherise. The median Cherise alive today is 46 years old; half are between 37 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 3,960 people named Cherise (3,955 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 380 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 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 Cherise born?
The states with the most babies named Cherise are California, New York and Illinois, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 707 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 556 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 300 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 94 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Cherise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cherise is most over-represented in New York: since 1947 it was given 1.6 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 Cherise 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 6,959 babies since 1880, Cherise is the most given (64% 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 Cherise
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 Cherise and names like it
- Compare Cherise and CherisseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCherise peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherise since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Cherise.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cherise alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.