Cherish — #1480 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cherish

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,190 babies named Cherish between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cherish currently holds the #1480 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 461 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cherish performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Cherish shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,223 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Cherish in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cherish 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 11,190 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.