Meaning not yet researched.
Cheyenne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 285 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1997; #920 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cheyenne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#920 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #68.
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Cheyenne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 285 girls in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 4,866 (1996).
In 2025, 285 US girls were named Cheyenne, making it the 920th most common girls’ name of the year, down 50 places from #870 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 311 girls named Cheyenne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #68, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,866, in 1996. For comparison, it was #346 in 2015 and #3,254 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cheyenne in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 73,428 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 32,754 babies named Cheyenne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,201 US girls were named Cheyenne; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 809. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,640 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cheyenne ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #497 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cheyanne (15,427 babies since 1880), Chyanne (2,937 babies since 1880), Cheyann (1,685 babies since 1880) and Chyenne (1,377 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cheynne, Cheyane and Cheyeanne 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cheynne (249), Cheyane (174), Cheyeanne (145), Cheyenn (15), Chyeanne (15), Cheyeene (5), Chyene (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 Cheyenne 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 7 | #497 | #394 |
| Utah | 7 | #553 | #406 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #631 | #194 |
| Georgia | 16 | #649 | #343 |
| Missouri | 8 | #658 | #214 |
| Indiana | 9 | #666 | #357 |
| Arizona | 9 | #695 | #315 |
| Maryland | 6 | #751 | #323 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #761 | #225 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #788 | #215 |
| California | 37 | #802 | #508 |
| Colorado | 6 | #815 | #343 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #817 | #356 |
| Ohio | 11 | #818 | #322 |
| Washington | 7 | #837 | #375 |
| Texas | 34 | #862 | #257 |
| Michigan | 8 | #876 | #534 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #880 | #425 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,185 | #254 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,221 | #416 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,450 | #445 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 285 | #920 | — | — |
| 2024 | 311 | #870 | 7 | #10,088 |
| 2023 | 358 | #787 | 6 | #11,082 |
| 2022 | 427 | #686 | 10 | #7,862 |
| 2021 | 451 | #660 | — | — |
| 2020 | 509 | #580 | 6 | #10,853 |
| 2019 | 632 | #496 | 11 | #7,260 |
| 2018 | 678 | #465 | — | — |
| 2017 | 741 | #429 | 8 | #9,005 |
| 2016 | 809 | #412 | 5 | #12,541 |
| 2015 | 952 | #346 | 11 | #7,154 |
| 2014 | 911 | #360 | 7 | #9,827 |
| 2013 | 983 | #330 | 9 | #8,233 |
| 2012 | 1,019 | #318 | 9 | #8,276 |
| 2011 | 1,159 | #274 | 10 | #7,603 |
| 2010 | 1,374 | #229 | 16 | #5,524 |
| 2009 | 1,771 | #186 | 14 | #6,153 |
| 2008 | 2,111 | #160 | 17 | #5,289 |
| 2007 | 2,366 | #147 | 17 | #5,242 |
| 2006 | 2,077 | #170 | 20 | #4,544 |
| 2005 | 1,966 | #171 | 17 | #4,861 |
| 2004 | 2,190 | #149 | 40 | #2,651 |
| 2003 | 2,475 | #134 | 32 | #3,004 |
| 2002 | 2,712 | #127 | 40 | #2,474 |
| 2001 | 2,875 | #119 | 46 | #2,223 |
| 2000 | 3,367 | #99 | 48 | #2,090 |
| 1999 | 3,779 | #84 | 49 | #1,969 |
| 1998 | 4,327 | #72 | 64 | #1,624 |
| 1997 | 4,764 | #68 | 82 | #1,352 |
| 1996 | 4,866 | #68 | 109 | #1,101 |
| 1995 | 4,088 | #86 | 122 | #1,007 |
| 1994 | 3,307 | #99 | 114 | #1,042 |
| 1993 | 2,372 | #135 | 111 | #1,049 |
| 1992 | 1,795 | #169 | 81 | #1,255 |
| 1991 | 1,718 | #175 | 120 | #972 |
| 1990 | 833 | #331 | 53 | #1,569 |
| 1989 | 373 | #587 | 63 | #1,384 |
| 1988 | 314 | #635 | 44 | #1,620 |
| 1987 | 281 | #664 | 46 | #1,541 |
| 1986 | 236 | #745 | 46 | #1,477 |
| 1985 | 178 | #894 | 40 | #1,598 |
| 1984 | 175 | #869 | 39 | #1,559 |
| 1983 | 202 | #787 | 56 | #1,222 |
| 1982 | 190 | #824 | 56 | #1,243 |
| 1981 | 164 | #912 | 54 | #1,248 |
| 1980 | 176 | #871 | 59 | #1,187 |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,063 | 60 | #1,170 |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,121 | 59 | #1,152 |
| 1977 | 109 | #1,153 | 67 | #1,054 |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,010 | 54 | #1,166 |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,279 | 63 | #1,044 |
| 1974 | 87 | #1,252 | 53 | #1,125 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,691 | 60 | #1,049 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,701 | 43 | #1,262 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,144 | 36 | #1,419 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,526 | 25 | #1,751 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,928 | 16 | #2,146 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,821 | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,954 | 23 | #1,612 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,352 | 18 | #1,825 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,549 | 17 | #1,927 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,117 | 14 | #2,225 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,945 | 11 | #2,556 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,379 | 13 | #2,293 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,962 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,254 | 28 | #1,528 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,693 | 18 | #1,918 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,243 | 42 | #1,187 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,728 | 71 | #902 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,467 | 39 | #1,220 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,997 | 5 | #3,964 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,709 | 6 | #3,481 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,960 | 6 | #3,402 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,637 | 5 | #3,770 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,069 | — | — |
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).