Sheyenne
Sheyenne was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 1,431 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Sheyenne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheyenne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheyenne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,606, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1997, the peak
Sheyenne peaked in 1997, when 103 girls were given it, #1,568 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #13,606 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,483 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,958 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,840 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,054 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,695 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,746 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,808 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,388 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,936 | 21.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 36 | #4,345 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,775 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,935 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,493 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,581 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,222 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,283 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,480 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 74 | #2,168 | 40.7 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,629 | 58.1 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,592 | 58.3 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,568 | 59.2 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,595 | 55.9 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,619 | 52.3 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,986 | 39.8 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,712 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,764 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,192 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,092 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,383 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,293 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,269 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,213 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,770 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,853 | 7.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,872 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,448 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheyenne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheyenne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheyenne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheyenne, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,431 Americans ever recorded as Sheyenne. The median Sheyenne alive today is 27 years old; half are between 22 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,349 people named Sheyenne (1,319 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 443 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 57 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,224 babies since 1880, Sheyenne is the most given (64% 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 Sheyenne
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 Sheyenne and names like it
- Compare Sheyenne and SheyanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSheyenne peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheyenne since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Sheyenne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sheyenne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.