Meaning not yet researched.
Cheryl: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #13 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #13 in 1958; #4,376 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cheryl in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,376 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #13.
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Cheryl: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #13 in 1958 · most girls in one year: 24,119 (1958).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Cheryl, making it the 4,376th most common girls’ name of the year, down 396 places from #3,980 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 37 girls named Cheryl in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #13, reached in 1958. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24,119. For comparison, it was #3,035 in 2015 and #29 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cheryl in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 440,517 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 171,679 babies named Cheryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US girls were named Cheryl; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cara (53,367 babies since 1880), Sherilyn (3,930 babies since 1880), Sherrell (3,221 babies since 1880) and Cheryll (2,628 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cherell, Chyrel and Cheril are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cher.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cherell (394), Chyrel (265), Cheril (231), Cheryal (153), Cheryel (94), Cheral (72), Cherril (61), Cherylle (43), Cherrel (32), Cherryle (22), Cherel (21), Chyral (20), and more.
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1999 | 173 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1998 | 165 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1997 | 198 | #986 | — | — |
| 1996 | 250 | #813 | — | — |
| 1995 | 255 | #780 | — | — |
| 1994 | 307 | #685 | — | — |
| 1993 | 374 | #612 | — | — |
| 1992 | 441 | #534 | — | — |
| 1991 | 539 | #457 | — | — |
| 1990 | 615 | #415 | 7 | #6,520 |
| 1989 | 731 | #351 | — | — |
| 1988 | 889 | #280 | — | — |
| 1987 | 959 | #263 | 5 | #7,126 |
| 1986 | 1,031 | #251 | 8 | #4,924 |
| 1985 | 1,224 | #209 | 8 | #4,770 |
| 1984 | 1,323 | #202 | 6 | #5,688 |
| 1983 | 1,562 | #176 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,875 | #159 | 6 | #5,750 |
| 1981 | 2,116 | #134 | 5 | #6,439 |
| 1980 | 2,609 | #119 | 7 | #5,019 |
| 1979 | 3,210 | #94 | 6 | #5,472 |
| 1978 | 3,167 | #94 | 8 | #4,221 |
| 1977 | 2,121 | #135 | 7 | #4,670 |
| 1976 | 2,489 | #105 | 9 | #3,762 |
| 1975 | 2,997 | #97 | 13 | #2,926 |
| 1974 | 3,496 | #88 | 17 | #2,373 |
| 1973 | 4,010 | #74 | 16 | #2,418 |
| 1972 | 5,136 | #56 | 27 | #1,684 |
| 1971 | 6,327 | #50 | 12 | #2,839 |
| 1970 | 7,440 | #44 | 24 | #1,804 |
| 1969 | 8,346 | #41 | 20 | #1,866 |
| 1968 | 9,138 | #37 | 28 | #1,480 |
| 1967 | 10,767 | #35 | 29 | #1,415 |
| 1966 | 11,713 | #34 | 25 | #1,542 |
| 1965 | 12,550 | #31 | 34 | #1,318 |
| 1964 | 14,081 | #29 | 43 | #1,175 |
| 1963 | 15,047 | #24 | 37 | #1,283 |
| 1962 | 16,587 | #24 | 45 | #1,150 |
| 1961 | 18,301 | #20 | 42 | #1,224 |
| 1960 | 19,120 | #17 | 48 | #1,132 |
| 1959 | 20,947 | #18 | 40 | #1,231 |
| 1958 | 24,119 | #13 | 59 | #995 |
| 1957 | 22,643 | #16 | 41 | #1,217 |
| 1956 | 21,278 | #18 | 25 | #1,572 |
| 1955 | 19,111 | #19 | 32 | #1,343 |
| 1954 | 15,015 | #22 | 26 | #1,501 |
| 1953 | 12,264 | #28 | 19 | #1,775 |
| 1952 | 12,201 | #31 | 17 | #1,870 |
| 1951 | 11,986 | #30 | 19 | #1,735 |
| 1950 | 11,823 | #29 | 14 | #2,040 |
| 1949 | 12,007 | #28 | 17 | #1,831 |
| 1948 | 13,220 | #25 | 20 | #1,661 |
| 1947 | 13,890 | #24 | 21 | #1,657 |
| 1946 | 11,526 | #27 | 23 | #1,479 |
| 1945 | 8,149 | #32 | 20 | #1,505 |
| 1944 | 7,972 | #36 | 22 | #1,445 |
| 1943 | 2,878 | #102 | 16 | #1,848 |
| 1942 | 591 | #280 | — | — |
| 1941 | 442 | #309 | — | — |
| 1940 | 284 | #410 | — | — |
| 1939 | 289 | #390 | 5 | #3,567 |
| 1938 | 397 | #312 | — | — |
| 1937 | 145 | #563 | — | — |
| 1936 | 94 | #688 | — | — |
| 1935 | 99 | #668 | — | — |
| 1934 | 76 | #768 | — | — |
| 1933 | 60 | #867 | — | — |
| 1932 | 49 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1931 | 49 | #999 | — | — |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,265 | — | — |
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).