Cherylynn
Cherylynn was last recorded in 1989, when 8 babies were given it; 209 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cherylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cherylynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,902, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1979, the peak
Cherylynn peaked in 1979, when 12 girls were given it, #5,474 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 8 | #8,902 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,697 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,698 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,224 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,784 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,694 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,594 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,474 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,018 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,684 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #9,546 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,004 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,428 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,534 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,197 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,060 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,366 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,048 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,349 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,894 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,563 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,747 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,923 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,377 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,222 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,691 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,572 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,393 | 3.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,824 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,260 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cherylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cherylynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cherylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cherylynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 187 Americans named Cherylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Cherylynn (263 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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 Cherylynn?
Cherylynn is a less common spelling of Cherilyn: SSA has recorded 209 Cherylynn and 2,363 Cherilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,530 babies since 1880, Cherylynn is the eighth most given (3.2% 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 Cherylynn
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 Cherylynn and names like it
- Compare Cherylynn and CherilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCherylynn peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Cherylynn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cherylynn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.