Cheryln
Cheryln was last recorded in 1978, when 6 babies were given it; 226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cheryln by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cheryln?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,733, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1957, the peak
Cheryln peaked in 1957, when 19 girls were given it, #2,667 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | #8,733 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,637 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,319 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,192 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,083 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,897 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,570 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,562 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,377 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,956 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 9 | #4,499 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,070 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,972 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,667 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,362 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,607 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,867 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,137 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,003 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,080 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,666 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,388 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,749 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,452 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,718 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,745 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cheryln a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cheryln has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cheryln: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cheryln, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Cheryln and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 200 people named Cheryln (198 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,458 babies since 1880, Cheryln is the sixth most given (3.5% 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 Cheryln
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 Cheryln and names like it
- Compare Cheryln and CherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCheryln peaked in 1957.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Cheryln.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cheryln alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.