Cheyney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cheyney

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Cheyney between 1989 and 1995, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cheyney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Cheyney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cheyney performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Cheyney shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cheyney 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 28 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.