Cheskel
Cheskel was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,325 among boys’ names; 749 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cheskel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cheskel?
#3,325 among boys’ names, 2025
Cheskel rose from #4,421 in 2015 to #3,325 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 20.5 per million.
38 babies in 2023, the peak
Cheskel peaked in 2023, when 38 boys were given it, #3,182 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,325 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,341 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,182 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,196 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,508 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,069 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,907 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,613 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,345 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,897 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,421 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,030 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,008 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,758 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,234 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,403 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,951 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,419 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,470 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,562 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,614 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,624 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,774 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,144 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,011 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,620 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,357 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,896 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,696 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,593 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,992 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,931 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,830 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,711 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,411 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,317 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,321 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,836 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,120 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,050 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,904 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,009 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,438 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,920 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,220 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,229 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,026 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,712 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,211 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,098 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,699 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,121 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,683 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,044 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cheskel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cheskel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cheskel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cheskel, and how old are they?
An estimated 727 Americans named Cheskel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 456 people named Cheskel (1 woman or girl, 455 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Cheskel born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 478 | not ranked | 10.1× |
Where Cheskel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cheskel is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 10.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cheskel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cheskel
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 Cheskel and names like it
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