Cherlyn
Cherlyn was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 1,870 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Cherlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 51 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cherlyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,300, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1956, the peak
Cherlyn peaked in 1956, when 70 girls were given it, #1,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,300 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,968 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,471 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,436 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,658 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,523 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,757 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,064 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,618 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,220 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,053 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,056 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,608 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,942 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,836 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,072 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,698 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,552 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,612 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,873 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,220 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,982 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,830 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,003 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,518 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,574 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,993 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,027 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,020 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,558 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,623 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,845 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,738 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,064 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,769 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,315 | 22.6 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,315 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,673 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,653 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,216 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,813 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,755 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,602 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,859 | 21.5 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,733 | 23.7 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,651 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,543 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,553 | 26.3 |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,354 | 32.6 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,452 | 27.2 |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,273 | 34.3 |
| 1957 | 63 | #1,332 | 30.8 |
| 1956 | 70 | #1,241 | 34.9 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,445 | 25.1 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,517 | 22.7 |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,375 | 26.6 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,405 | 25.9 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,383 | 25.5 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,579 | 20.4 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,353 | 26.9 |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,252 | 31.2 |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,151 | 34.4 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,277 | 29.3 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,233 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,705 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,073 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherlyn, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,870 Americans ever recorded as Cherlyn. The median Cherlyn alive today is 62 years old; half are between 51 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 1,616 people named Cherlyn (1,614 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 778 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 462 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 151 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 116 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20 |
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 Cherlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Cherlyn are California, Louisiana and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 119 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 73 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | 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 Cherlyn 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, Cherlyn is the second most given (33% 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 Cherlyn
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 Cherlyn and names like it
- Compare Cherlyn and CherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCherlyn peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Cherlyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cherlyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.