Cherokee — #7995 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Cherokee

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,566 babies named Cherokee between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cherokee currently holds the #7995 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 143 babies received it in a single year. Cherokee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 337 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cherokee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,067 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Cherokee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 220 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Cherokee in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cherokee 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 2,566 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.