Meaning not yet researched.
Cherish: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #643 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #643 in 2007; #1,374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cherish in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,374 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #643.
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Cherish: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 girls in 2025. Peak: #643 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 461 (2007).
In 2025, 160 US girls were named Cherish, making it the 1,374th most common girls’ name of the year, up 101 places from #1,475 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 148 girls named Cherish in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #643, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 461. For comparison, it was #938 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cherish in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 11 babies. In all, 11,352 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,130 babies named Cherish.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,026 US girls were named Cherish; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 277. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,045 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cherish ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #665 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cherise (4,484 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cherisse, Cherese and Cherrish 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cherisse (1,064), Cherese (758), Cherrish (588), Cherysh (209), Cheris (149), Cherrise (105), Cheryse (21), Cheriese (14).
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 Cherish in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 9 | #665 | #783 |
| Georgia | 14 | #714 | #698 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #760 | #691 |
| Missouri | 5 | #967 | #472 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,012 | #613 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,043 | #542 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,097 | #505 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,170 | #990 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,433 | #1,046 |
| New York | 7 | #1,686 | #1,308 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,255 | #1,484 |
| California | 8 | #2,314 | #1,389 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2021 | 199 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2019 | 251 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2018 | 242 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2017 | 258 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 2016 | 277 | #972 | — | — |
| 2015 | 289 | #938 | — | — |
| 2014 | 350 | #802 | — | — |
| 2013 | 348 | #780 | — | — |
| 2012 | 360 | #766 | — | — |
| 2011 | 386 | #716 | — | — |
| 2010 | 369 | #751 | — | — |
| 2009 | 422 | #692 | — | — |
| 2008 | 407 | #732 | — | — |
| 2007 | 461 | #643 | — | — |
| 2006 | 371 | #743 | — | — |
| 2005 | 206 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 2004 | 232 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2003 | 200 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2002 | 189 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2001 | 196 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 2000 | 181 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1999 | 159 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1998 | 155 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1997 | 179 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1996 | 156 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1995 | 162 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1994 | 143 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1993 | 183 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1992 | 168 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1990 | 184 | #995 | — | — |
| 1989 | 223 | #842 | — | — |
| 1988 | 199 | #886 | — | — |
| 1987 | 243 | #744 | — | — |
| 1986 | 263 | #692 | — | — |
| 1985 | 192 | #846 | — | — |
| 1984 | 210 | #767 | — | — |
| 1983 | 160 | #931 | — | — |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1977 | 103 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1976 | 92 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1975 | 104 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1974 | 132 | #940 | — | — |
| 1973 | 86 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1972 | 85 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,000 | — | — |
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).