Cherryl
Cherryl was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 1,757 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Cherryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 63 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cherryl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,869, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
105 babies in 1947, the peak
Cherryl peaked in 1947, when 105 girls were given it, #853 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #13,869 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,686 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,945 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,241 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,189 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,436 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,815 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,754 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,636 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,631 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | #5,413 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,402 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,485 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,970 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,125 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,024 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,062 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,126 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,022 | 19.5 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,718 | 24.4 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,980 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,841 | 20.8 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,477 | 29.0 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,671 | 22.8 |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,406 | 30.2 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,418 | 28.2 |
| 1958 | 71 | #1,259 | 35.3 |
| 1957 | 72 | #1,239 | 35.2 |
| 1956 | 91 | #1,077 | 45.3 |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,086 | 44.0 |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,140 | 38.6 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,426 | 25.0 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,287 | 29.7 |
| 1951 | 51 | #1,303 | 28.3 |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,124 | 39.1 |
| 1949 | 77 | #1,017 | 45.0 |
| 1948 | 97 | #881 | 57.1 |
| 1947 | 105 | #853 | 59.2 |
| 1946 | 104 | #810 | 66.2 |
| 1945 | 58 | #1,017 | 44.4 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,018 | 44.5 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,002 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,218 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,695 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,225 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherryl has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherryl, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,757 Americans ever recorded as Cherryl. The median Cherryl alive today is 70 years old; half are between 63 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,967 people named Cherryl (1,961 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 88 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 981 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
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 Cherryl born?
The states with the most babies named Cherryl are California, Michigan and Texas, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 165 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 20 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Cherryl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cherryl is most over-represented in California: since 1938 it was given 1.2 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 Cherryl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cherryl?
Cherryl is a less common spelling of Cheryl: SSA has recorded 1,757 Cherryl and 440,517 Cheryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 446,516 babies since 1880, Cherryl is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Cherryl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cherryl
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 Cherryl and names like it
- Compare Cherryl and CherylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCherryl peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cherryl since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Cherryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cherryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.