Meaning not yet researched.
Cher: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #651 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #651 in 1972. No US babies were recorded with the name Cher in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #651 in 1972.
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Cher: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #651 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 235 (1972).
Fewer than five US girls were named Cher in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #651, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 235. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,458 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cher in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 1,831 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 964 babies named Cher.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 32 US girls were named Cher; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 8.
Rarer spellings such as Chere, Cherre and Cheire are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chere (1,347), Cherre (75), Cheire (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cher in the open dataset we use.
Cher is listed as a nickname for Cheryl.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,840 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,305 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,590 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,200 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,389 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,126 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,545 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,648 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,250 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,821 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,309 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,084 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,934 | 11 | #5,241 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,080 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,850 | 7 | #7,074 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,927 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,703 | 13 | #4,357 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,086 | 16 | #3,664 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,903 | 9 | #5,451 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,900 | 7 | #6,327 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,657 | 5 | #7,124 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,767 | 5 | #6,901 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,092 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,597 | 9 | #4,263 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,199 | 10 | #3,923 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,980 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,773 | 8 | #4,578 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1975 | 123 | #995 | — | — |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1973 | 178 | #760 | — | — |
| 1972 | 235 | #651 | — | — |
| 1971 | 110 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1970 | 72 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,374 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,350 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).