Cheyne — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cheyne

The Social Security Administration has registered 909 babies named Cheyne between 1971 and 2017, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cheyne currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 70 babies received it in a single year. Cheyne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 115 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheyne performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 428 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cheyne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 260 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Hawaii. In total, SSA state-level files list Cheyne in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheyne in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 909 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.