Cheryl — #3963 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cheryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 439,502 babies named Cheryl between 1909 and 2024, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cheryl currently holds the #3963 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 24,118 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheryl performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 171,390 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Cheryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 37,194 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cheryl in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheryl 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 439,502 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.