Girls' name · since 1949
Cherylan
12 babies named Cherylan in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1956. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #51,581 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1949
- 1950s
- peak decade
Cherylan sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 12 recorded since 1949.
Cherylan has 12 recorded births among girls since 1949, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1949 to 1956.
- #51,581 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 12 born since 1949
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cherylan ranks #51,581 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 12 born since 1949, peaking in the 1950s.
- #51,581 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1949
- 1950s
- peak decade
Cherylan's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cherylan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Cherylan's full recorded timeline at 1956, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1949, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1956 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Cherylan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1949–1956
- Peak year (1956)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Cherylan by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (7 births, 58% of the file).
1950s was Cherylan's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Cherylan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
5 births
- 1950s
1950s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cherylan: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1956)
Similar record span (~7 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1949–1956 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cherylan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.