Meaning not yet researched.
Cherokee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,262 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,262 in 1995; #13,556 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cherokee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,556 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,262.
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Cherokee: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,262 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 143 (1998).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Cherokee, making it the 13,556th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,500 places from #8,056 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 13 girls named Cherokee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,262, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 143, in 1998. For comparison, it was #4,616 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Cherokee in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,059, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #12,406 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cherokee in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 2,909 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,267 babies named Cherokee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US girls were named Cherokee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cherakee 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: Cherakee (11).
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 Cherokee in the open dataset we use.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,556 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,056 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,999 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,134 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,503 | 5 | #12,629 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,616 | 5 | #12,406 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,524 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,273 | 7 | #9,873 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,575 | 6 | #11,240 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,951 | 7 | #10,044 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,231 | 5 | #12,362 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,974 | 7 | #9,290 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,179 | 6 | #10,178 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,130 | 11 | #6,325 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,969 | 13 | #5,451 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,905 | 17 | #4,510 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,534 | 19 | #4,082 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,433 | 18 | #4,007 |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,265 | 19 | #3,725 |
| 1997 | 126 | #1,363 | 27 | #2,834 |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,279 | 23 | #3,123 |
| 1995 | 134 | #1,262 | 40 | #2,059 |
| 1994 | 124 | #1,348 | 37 | #2,186 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,643 | 18 | #3,523 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,691 | 10 | #5,292 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,137 | 8 | #6,038 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,988 | 7 | #5,584 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,005 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,775 | 5 | #6,470 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,441 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,143 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,653 | 6 | #5,163 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,392 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,111 | 6 | #5,027 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,657 | 5 | #5,600 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,402 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,719 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,765 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,913 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,983 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,390 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,348 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,356 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,729 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,140 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,106 | — | — |
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).