Cherish
Cherish is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 147 births. Its best rank was 643rd, in 2007.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1470.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2007461 births
- Best rank
- #643in 2007
- Since 1966
- 11,190people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,190 girls have been named Cherish in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 461 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 28%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Cherish was the 643rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Cherish
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adrinapeak 2011
- Talyapeak 2014
- Vaniapeak 2007
- Andrayapeak 2013
- Marlypeak 2008
- Leighapeak 2011
- Dalilapeak 2009
- Adipeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.