Cherylyn
Cherylyn was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 378 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cherylyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,870, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1947, the peak
Cherylyn peaked in 1947, when 16 girls were given it, #2,547 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #13,870 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,692 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,688 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,502 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,223 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,437 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,895 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,664 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,794 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,481 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 10 | #5,955 | 6.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,600 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,055 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,639 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,122 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,718 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,466 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,221 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,834 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,545 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,726 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,571 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,903 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,943 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,313 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,591 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,727 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,855 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,571 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,343 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,523 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,238 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,237 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,287 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,591 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,519 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,458 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,943 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,389 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,547 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,717 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,662 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherylyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 321 Americans named Cherylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 51 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 433 people named Cherylyn (432 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Cherylyn?
Cherylyn is a less common spelling of Cherilyn: SSA has recorded 378 Cherylyn and 2,363 Cherilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,530 babies since 1880, Cherylyn is the fourth most given (5.8% 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 Cherylyn
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 Cherylyn and names like it
- Compare Cherylyn and CherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCherylyn peaked in 1947.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Cherylyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cherylyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.